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Strong City, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Strong Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66869. It stands on Fox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Strong City quadrangle. 386 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

Strong City within Chase County

On record in Strong City

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Strong City fell from 485 to 386 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
2010485
2020386-99 (-20%)

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

19 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Strong City between 2010 and 2016, burning about 17,484 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
21 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use19 acresTallgrass Prairie National PreserveCEMETARY
7 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,500 acresTallgrass Prairie National PreserveNOBODY KNOWS
6 April 2011Debris and open burning5,000 acresFlint Hills National Wildlife RefugeV ROAD
4 April 2015Debris and open burning60 acresKansas Forest Service24
21 April 2015Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service30
15 April 2014Debris and open burning2,095 acresTallgrass Prairie National PreserveFOX CREEK
14 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined121 acresChase County2 SECTION
14 April 2015Debris and open burning2,066 acresTallgrass Prairie National Preserve15 TWO SECTION EAST TRAPS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chase County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Strong City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Biggs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Chase County

Storms near this place

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strong City in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flood. 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
April 2023Tornado (EF0)Strong City1 hurt, $20,000This was the eighth tornado documented by the NWS Wichita damage Survey Team. This tornado mainly produced EF0 damage to mainly trees. There was one minor injury close to the initial touchdown along Highway 50, when a car was thrown 30 yards off the highway. The person was treated and released.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindStrong City$25,000Winds estimated around 56 knots/65 mph pulled a 50 foot by 30 foot pole barn from the ground and lifted it. The pole barn landed in a nearby pasture. Posts had been inserted 3 feet deep but did not have concrete support. There was an 8-foot opening to the north and a 15-foot opening to the west. A small lawn tractor that had been parked on the east side of the building was pushed onto its right side.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindStrong City$5,000no account filed
May 2019FloodStrong City$100Highway 177 was closed due to river flooding along the Cottonwood River south of Strong City.
June 2024HailStrong City-Report received via mPing.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindStrong City-A report via mPing of broken one inch tree limbs.
April 2023HailStrong City-Corrects previous report 3 west of Strong City.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindStrong City-This wind gust was measured from a Kansas Mesonet site near Strong City.
September 2023Heavy RainStrong City-Law enforcement measured 2.25 inches of rain in about an hour and a half period of time.
May 2022HailStrong City-Report was received via mPING.
May 2022HailStrong City-Report was received via mPING.
September 2019HailStrong City-Quarter to half dollar-sized hail was reported 0.5 mile west of Strong City. The report was relayed via Radio Station KVOE. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindStrong City-This was another delayed report that provided no details. Therefore, the speed is estimated.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindStrong City-The emergency manager reported the gust.
May 2017Tornado (EF0)Strong City-Brief touchdown over open country.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindStrong City-The Tallgrass Prairie Raws site measured the gust.
July 2010HailStrong City-The hail ranged from quarter to half-dollar size.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Strong City-Occurred in open country.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindStrong City-Large tree limbs downed.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindStrong City-Large trees blown down.
April 2023HailStrong City-no account filed
May 2020HailStrong City-no account filed
June 2015HailStrong City-no account filed
April 2011HailStrong City-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindStrong City-no account filed
June 2005HailStrong City-no account filed
February 2004HailStrong City-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindStrong City-no account filed
June 2003HailStrong City-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindStrong City-no account filed
July 1999HailStrong City-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindStrong City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chase 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
Cottonwood Falls1.8 miles12
Neva4.2 miles14
Gladstone4.4 miles16
Ellinor5.8 miles19
Elmdale5.9 miles13
Rockland6.1 miles14
Saffordville7.6 miles19
Bazaar8.6 miles12

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 Strong CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2088997The 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 477264. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.