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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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St. John within Stafford County

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

Population over time

2 figures

St. 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,295
20201,228-67 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

24 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined10
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service80
9 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service72
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service71
18 August 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service74
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service67
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service421
4 July 2015Fireworks2.0 acresKansas Forest Service422
26 July 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service67

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stafford County

Storms near this place

60 of 137 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSt John1 hurt, $300,000One 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 2008Thunderstorm WindSt John$75,000The winds blew a pivot irrigation sprinkler into a ditch.
May 2008FloodSt John$15,000One house in town was flooded and two more had water up their porches.
May 1995Tornado (F1)St. John$10,000no account filed
August 2024HailSt John-Hail the size of quarters was reported by the Public.
June 2024Flash FloodSt John-Road closed with water over road.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindSt John-Report form Mping.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSt 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 2014Thunderstorm WindSt John-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSt John-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSt John-There was some tree damage and power lines were blown down.
July 2010FloodSt John-Street flooding was reported in St John.
July 2010Heavy RainSt John-Rainfall of 3.00 inches reported and some streets were covered by water.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSt John-Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
May 2008Tornado (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 2006Thunderstorm WindSt John-Numerous trees were reported to be blown down. There was also some unspecified damage to a house.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSt John-Trees were uprooted.
May 2005Heavy RainSt John-Four and quarter inches of rain fell since 2 pm CST.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSt John-Five inch tree limbs were blown down.
April 2001HailSt John-lasted 10 minutes
May 2001Tornado (F0)St John-No damage since there was nothing to hit!
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSt John-Three inch diameter limbs blown down.
March 2000Tornado (F0)St John-Greenhouse damaged and moved cattle corrals.
October 2000Tornado (F0)St John-Brief tornado was witnessed by many law enforcement and EMS personnel.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSt John-Two and three inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 1999Heavy RainSt John-Rainfall of 2.00" in 15 minutes.
August 1997HailSt John-Hail covered the ground.
May 1993Tornado (F0)St. John-Tornado touched down in open farmland.
May 2023HailSt John-no account filed
May 2023HailSt John-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSt John-no account filed
June 2017HailSt John-no account filed
June 2017HailSt John-no account filed
June 2017HailSt John-no account filed
August 2017HailSt John-no account filed
April 2015HailSt John-no account filed
April 2015HailSt John-no account filed
April 2015HailSt John-no account filed
April 2015HailSt John-no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSt John-no account filed
April 2015HailSt John-no account filed
June 2014HailSt John-no account filed
May 2014HailSt John-no account filed
May 2013HailSt John-no account filed
April 2013HailSt John-no account filed
August 2011HailSt John-no account filed
May 2010HailSt John-no account filed
May 2010HailSt John-no account filed
April 2009HailSt John-no account filed
April 2008HailSt John-no account filed
April 2008Thunderstorm WindSt John-no account filed
June 2008HailSt John-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSt John-no account filed
May 2008HailSt John-no account filed
May 2008HailSt John-no account filed
May 2008HailSt John-no account filed
April 2008HailSt John-no account filed
August 2007HailSt John-no account filed
August 2007HailSt John-no account filed
July 2007HailSt John-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stafford 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
Dillwyn6.7 miles14
Hudson8.9 miles15
Stafford8.9 miles14
Macksville11.4 miles14
Seward12.3 miles15
Radium13.8 miles15
Zenith14.5 miles13
Neola16.2 miles14

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. JohnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2112031The 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.