Spring Hill, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Spring Hill City. It lies in ZIP code area 66083. The Survey maps it on the Spring Hill quadrangle. 4,932 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.
On record in Spring Hill
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
- George L. Morrow Barnlisted 2024
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1887 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Spring Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
125 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 2006 and 2018, burning about 426 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 were 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 | 53 |
| Debris and open burning | 45 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 22 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Johnson County | 2340214 |
| 22 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Johnson County | not named |
| 16 August 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 10 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2220104 |
| 10 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 3 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Johnson County | 1840202 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | 4 hurt | Severe thunderstorms moved across Johnson County. A 70 mph wind gust was observed at the intersection of U.S. Route 169 and 199th Street, and a 65 mph wind gust occurred near Stanley. Gusts up to 60 mph were recorded at the New Century Airport in Olathe, at the intersection of Interstate 435 and Johnson Drive. Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and limbs in Gardner and Shawnee. In Overland Park, a tree fell on a house and car, and a 60-foot tree was knocked down at 92nd and Switzer. Several streets were completely blocked by downed trees and limbs. A two-foot diameter tree also fell onto a house in Merriam, and trees, limbs, and power lines were downed in Spring Hill. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $50,000 | Trees and limbs were blown down from Olathe to the northern portion of Spring Hill. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Spring Hill | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $45,000 | Fire truck blown off road. Three semi trailers overturned. One of which crushed an automobile. Radio tower snapped and power lines were down. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorms produced large hail and wind damage in and around Spring Hill. There were reports of a tornado in this area, but no ground-truth evidence could be found. There may have been a funnel aloft, as there were additional reports to the east into Cass county, Missouri. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | $500 | A power line was reported down. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Downed wires near Renner Road east of Spring Hill. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Fire and rescue reported 60 mph wind. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A power pole was snapped from 60 to 70 mph wind gusts at the intersection of Race and Hale Street in Spring Hill, Kansas. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A tree was down and a power outage occurred near Spring Hill. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | A large piece of plywood was embedded into the side of a house. Wind speed was derived from nearby reports of 75 mph winds and significant damage in other nearby areas. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Spring Hill | - | Woodland Road closed due to high water from very heavy rains. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Spring Hill | - | 199th Street at Ridgeview is closed due to high water. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and limbs 12 to 18 inches in diameter at the USD 230 Board of Education offices. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Hill | - | Public reports were received of an 18-inch diameter evergreen tree downed, and other tree damage. Also, lawn furniture was thrown up into trees by thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Spring Hill | - | 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 Spring Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2371276 | 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 479558. 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.







