Spivey, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Chikaskia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67142. It stands on Wild Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spivey quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,509 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSpivey fell from 78 to 61 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 78 | |
| 2020 | 61 | -17 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Anthony quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Anthony quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Spivey quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Spivey between 2015 and 2018, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2283 |
| 28 May 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1803 |
| 17 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18002 |
| 16 April 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 645 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spivey in 35 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 23 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | 1 hurt | Trees and tree limbs less than 4 inches in diameter were downed. One minor injury occurred in Spivey, but details are unknown. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | $1,000 | Downed one power pole. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | Estimated wind gusts reported by the public. |
| February 2012 | Hail | Spivey | - | The hail covered the ground. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | The gust was estimated up to 70 mph. |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Spivey | - | Rope tornado moved across open country just missing Spivey and Rago. |
| May 2012 | Tornado (EF3) | Spivey | - | This is the tornado that moved out of Harper county and it continued to cause devastation to wind turbines, power lines, and oil tanks. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Spivey | - | Hail size ranged from pea to nickel size. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | Extensive tree damage. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Spivey | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Spivey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1841894 | The 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 470401. 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.





