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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.

Spivey within Kingman County

Population over time

2 figures

Spivey 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.

YearPeople Change
201078
202061-17 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2283
28 May 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1803
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service18002
16 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKansas Forest Service645

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingman County

Storms near this place

35 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSpivey1 hurtTrees and tree limbs less than 4 inches in diameter were downed. One minor injury occurred in Spivey, but details are unknown.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSpivey$1,000Downed one power pole.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSpivey-Estimated wind gusts reported by the public.
February 2012HailSpivey-The hail covered the ground.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSpivey-The gust was estimated up to 70 mph.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Spivey-Rope tornado moved across open country just missing Spivey and Rago.
May 2012Tornado (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 2010HailSpivey-Hail size ranged from pea to nickel size.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSpivey-Extensive tree damage.
May 2010HailSpivey-no account filed
May 2010HailSpivey-no account filed
May 2010HailSpivey-no account filed
May 2010HailSpivey-no account filed
May 2009HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2008HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2008HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2008HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSpivey-no account filed
April 2008Thunderstorm WindSpivey-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSpivey-no account filed
June 2008HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2007HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2007HailSpivey-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSpivey-no account filed
March 2002HailSpivey-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSpivey-no account filed
June 2002HailSpivey-no account filed
April 2001HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2001HailSpivey-no account filed
June 2001HailSpivey-no account filed
July 2000HailSpivey-no account filed
July 2000HailSpivey-no account filed
September 1999HailSpivey-no account filed
April 1996HailSpivey-no account filed
May 1995HailSpivey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingman 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
Rago4.4 miles15
Basil6.2 miles13
Zenda6.3 miles15
Cleveland7.5 miles13
Willowdale8.8 miles13
Alameda9.6 miles13
Adams9.9 miles19
Belmont10.7 miles13

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 SpiveyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1841894The 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.