St. John, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. John Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67576. The Survey maps it on the Saint John North quadrangle. 1,228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,903 feet above sea level.
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On record in St. John
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 2 records
William R. Gray Photography Studio and Residencelisted 2013
Martin Cemeterylisted 2015
Population over time
2 figuresSt. John fell from 1,295 to 1,228 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 | 1,295 | |
| 2020 | 1,228 | -67 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1891 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Saint John North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of St. John between 2002 and 2018, burning about 167 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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 | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 80 |
| 9 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 72 |
| 8 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 71 |
| 18 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 74 |
| 11 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 67 |
| 4 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 421 |
| 4 July 2015 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 422 |
| 26 July 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 67 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 137 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names St. John in 137 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 95 hail, 29 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 4 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | 1 hurt, $300,000 | One trailer home was completely destroyed and the occupant received minor cuts and bruises, but lucky to be alive according to the Emergency Manager. Trees were down all over the place and several roofs received quite a bit of damage. Several pivot sprinklers overturned or damaged and a patrol car window pushed out. The same patrol car was blown into a ditch, after sitting idle with the driver pressing on the brake, powerless to the high wind. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | $75,000 | The winds blew a pivot irrigation sprinkler into a ditch. |
| May 2008 | Flood | St John | $15,000 | One house in town was flooded and two more had water up their porches. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F1) | St. John | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Hail | St John | - | Hail the size of quarters was reported by the Public. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | St John | - | Road closed with water over road. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Report form Mping. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Sections of a roof were blown off a 50 x 150 foot pole barn and deposited 1 to 2 blocks north of the building. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | There was some tree damage and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2010 | Flood | St John | - | Street flooding was reported in St John. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | St John | - | Rainfall of 3.00 inches reported and some streets were covered by water. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | St John | - | This tornado was observed by a storm chaser. He noted power lines down as the tornado cross the road 4 miles north of Hudson. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Numerous trees were reported to be blown down. There was also some unspecified damage to a house. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Trees were uprooted. |
| May 2005 | Heavy Rain | St John | - | Four and quarter inches of rain fell since 2 pm CST. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Five inch tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2001 | Hail | St John | - | lasted 10 minutes |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | St John | - | No damage since there was nothing to hit! |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Three inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| March 2000 | Tornado (F0) | St John | - | Greenhouse damaged and moved cattle corrals. |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F0) | St John | - | Brief tornado was witnessed by many law enforcement and EMS personnel. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | Two and three inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| June 1999 | Heavy Rain | St John | - | Rainfall of 2.00" in 15 minutes. |
| August 1997 | Hail | St John | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | St. John | - | Tornado touched down in open farmland. |
| May 2023 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | St John | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | St John | - | 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 St. John | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2112031 | 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 473574. 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.






