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Solomon, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67480. It stands on Solomon River. The Survey maps it on the Solomon quadrangle. 993 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,171 feet above sea level.

Solomon within Dickinson County

On record in Solomon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Solomon fell from 1,095 to 993 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,095
2020993-102 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

21 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Solomon between 2015 and 2018, burning about 614 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service63
21 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use20 acresKansas Forest Service72
10 April 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSaline County38
4 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDickinson County34
4 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDickinson County38
28 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service41
28 March 2015Debris and open burning75 acresKansas Forest Service39
28 March 2015Debris and open burning75 acresKansas Forest Service40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solomon in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 19 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2016Tornado (EF4)Solomon5 hurtThe long track violent tornado began 1-2 miles NNE of Niles Kansas and destroyed 2 homes in Ottawa county before crossing into Dickinson county north of Solomon. The tornado tracked 2-3 miles north of the city of Abilene following a meandering path approximately east along 2700 avenue in Dickinson county before veering southeast and crossing interstate 70 approx. 2 miles west of the city of Chapman. The tornado then moved ESE and then east along a path around 1 mile south of Chapman destroying 1 farmstead and several other homes in the area. The worst damage was done to a farmstead 1 mile southwest of Chapman along old highway 40 where the home was destroyed and all outbuildings were blown away. The sub floor of the home was removed from a bolted sill plate and the poured concrete foundation was cracked on the south side exposing the rebar where the strongest forces from the lifting structure occurred as it was being removed and blown away likely occurred. Much of the brick facade of the home did remain where it fell around the structure however so the area was not swept clean. Winds approaching 200 mph were likely in this area while a woman home at the time took shelter in the basement and was ok with only superficial injuries. The approximate number of minor injuries was 5 reported to NWS however none required a hospital visit. Photos of the damage are available off of the NWS damage assessment toolkit website at https://apps.dat.noaa.gov/StormDamage/DamageViewer/ .
May 2007FloodSolomon$400,000Solomon River is out of banks. Road between Solomon and Abilene impassable. Smoky Hill river at Enterprise floods. Sandbagging is done in the cities of Abilene, Chapman and Solomon due to flooding along the Solomon and Smoky Hill Rivers.
May 2007FloodSolomon$400,000Rain road/State highway 206 closed one mile north of Chapman. Vehicles are stranded in Chapman with sandbagging and some evacuations made. Moderate or greater flooding on the Smoky Hill river through Abilene and Enterprise with widespread lowland flooding that closes some roads.
May 2007Flash FloodSolomon$300,000Reports of three feet of water running across roads in the town of Solomon. Also, a report of 1 to 2 feet of water cross highway 40 at Daisy road.
May 2007Flash FloodSolomon$100,000Reports of three feet of water running across roads in the town of Solomon. Also, a report of 1 to 2 feet of water cross highway 40 at Daisy road.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSolomon$5,000no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindSolomon$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSolomon-The report was relayed via social media. Downed tree of unknown diameter and power outage was reported.
May 2024HailSolomon-Quarter size hail east of Solomon.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSolomon-Report of large tree down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSolomon-Social media photo of 6 inch tree limb down.
May 2020HailSolomon-EM reported golf ball size hail.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSolomon-Numerous tree limbs around 3 inches in diameter down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSolomon-There were several 3 to 4 inch diameter tree branches down.
March 2011HailSolomon-This was a delayed report. The time was estimated from radar.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSolomon-The public reported a 60 mph wind gust near Solomon.
April 2010FloodSolomon-Roads in Solomon were closed due to high water.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSolomon-National Weather Service Personnel conducted a storm survey of Dickinson County following the storm's passage through the area. The strongest part of the storm passed through the county during the late morning. The first damage report from the county came into the office at 1040 CST. As the storm moved through the county it produced a wide swath of damage approximately 10 miles wide. Numerous powerlines were snapped from the strong winds. For the immediate few hours after the storm passed through Dickinson county every north-south thoroughfare was blocked by the downed power lines. Spotters who had fairly extensive damage done to their property estimated the winds at 90 to 100 mph. Several outbuildings were completely destroyed by the wind. Several houses sustained minor damage to the exterior from high winds and small hail.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSolomon-This was a delayed report.
April 2026HailSolomon-no account filed
April 2025HailSolomon-no account filed
May 2018HailSolomon-no account filed
April 2016HailSolomon-no account filed
June 2013HailSolomon-no account filed
February 2007HailSolomon-no account filed
May 2003HailSolomon-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSolomon-no account filed
August 2003HailSolomon-no account filed
August 2003HailSolomon-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSolomon-no account filed
April 2002HailSolomon-no account filed
April 2002HailSolomon-no account filed
April 2001HailSolomon-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSolomon-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindSolomon-no account filed
September 2001HailSolomon-no account filed
May 2000HailSolomon-no account filed
May 2000HailSolomon-no account filed
May 2000HailSolomon-no account filed
November 1996FloodSolomon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sand Spring4.7 miles17
Acme7.9 miles15
Abilene8.3 miles16
Talmage9.3 miles15
Holland11.9 miles15
Manchester12.3 miles15
Detroit13.3 miles17
Enterprise13.5 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SolomonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1988229The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 476660. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.