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Stafford, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Stafford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67578. The Survey maps it on the Stafford quadrangle. 959 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,857 feet above sea level.

Stafford within Stafford County

On record in Stafford

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Stafford fell from 1,042 to 959 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
20101,042
2020959-83 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Stafford between 2000 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
8 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreStafford County63
19 July 2015Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service625
23 June 2000Debris and open burning80 acresQuivira National Wildlife RefugeSTAFFORD
11 June 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreStafford County51
5 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service26
17 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service31
2 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18
12 December 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service653

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stafford County

Storms near this place

60 of 102 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stafford in 102 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 62 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindStafford$53,000A pivot sprinkler was blown down along with 6 to 7 power poles.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindStafford$10,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindStafford$8,000The wind damaged the roof of a local restaurant and broken numerous three to five inch diameter tree limbs.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindStafford$5,000Multiple power poles were blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStafford$3,000Six power poles were snapped off near the ground.
May 2024Heavy RainStafford-A 24 hour rainfall report of 1.18 inches.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindStafford-A shed was flipped over by the high wind gusts.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindStafford-Eight to ten power poles were blown down by the high wind.
April 2013HailStafford-The hail was reported to be 2 to 3 inches deep on roads from Stafford to the Junction of Highway 50 and US 281.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindStafford-Wind gusts were estimated to be 65 MPH.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindStafford-The wind was reported by a trained spotter.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindStafford-The wind was estimated.
March 2007FloodStafford-Two to four inches of water was reported to be flowing over highway 50. Also, some water over rural county roads in the radium area.
August 2007Heavy RainStafford-Rainfall of 2.30 inches was reported.
March 2007HailStafford-Along with pea sized hail his wheat crop was severely damaged.
October 2005HailStafford-The hail covered the ground.
October 2005HailStafford-The hail completely covered the ground.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStafford-Two inch tree limbs broken.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindStafford-Six to eight inch diameter limbs were blown down.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Stafford-Another brief tornado reported (again, not a gustnado).
May 2002Tornado (F0)Stafford-Another brief tornado spinup in the same general location as the 1712 CST tornado.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindStafford-Two foot diameter trees blown down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindStafford-Three to four inch diameter tree branches were broken.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Stafford-Tornado "skipped" much of the way with some light tree damage reported.
October 1998Flash FloodStafford-Water was reported over the intersection of HWY 50 and HWY 281.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindStafford-Tree limbs blown down and shingles blown off roofs.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindStafford-Power lines down.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindStafford-Tree limbs blown down.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindStafford-5 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
May 2024HailStafford-no account filed
May 2023HailStafford-no account filed
June 2017HailStafford-no account filed
June 2017HailStafford-no account filed
April 2015HailStafford-no account filed
May 2013HailStafford-no account filed
April 2013HailStafford-no account filed
May 2012HailStafford-no account filed
April 2010HailStafford-no account filed
April 2009HailStafford-no account filed
May 2008HailStafford-no account filed
May 2008HailStafford-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStafford-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStafford-no account filed
August 2007HailStafford-no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindStafford-no account filed
May 2006HailStafford-no account filed
May 2006HailStafford-no account filed
May 2006HailStafford-no account filed
May 2005HailStafford-no account filed
May 2005Heavy RainStafford-no account filed
July 2005HailStafford-no account filed
June 2005HailStafford-no account filed
June 2005HailStafford-no account filed
October 2005HailStafford-no account filed
August 2005HailStafford-no account filed
May 2004HailStafford-no account filed
May 2004HailStafford-no account filed
August 2004HailStafford-no account filed
June 2004HailStafford-no account filed
June 2004HailStafford-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
Zenith5.8 miles13
Neola8.0 miles14
St. John8.9 miles15
Hudson10.4 miles15
Dillwyn14.8 miles14
Seward18.1 miles15
Macksville19.5 miles14
Radium21.3 miles15

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 StaffordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2608876The 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 473592. 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.