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.
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
Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
Spring Hill RanchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1997
Fox Creek Stone Arch Bridgelisted 2006
Lower Fox Creek Schoollisted 1974
Strong City Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Depotlisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresStrong 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 485 | |
| 2020 | 386 | -99 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1898 USGS Cottonwood Falls quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Strong City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Strong City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
19 since 2010Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 19 acres | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve | CEMETARY |
| 7 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,500 acres | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve | NOBODY KNOWS |
| 6 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5,000 acres | Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge | V ROAD |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
| 21 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 30 |
| 15 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2,095 acres | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve | FOX CREEK |
| 14 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 121 acres | Chase County | 2 SECTION |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2,066 acres | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve | 15 TWO SECTION EAST TRAPS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biggs Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Strong City | 1 hurt, $20,000 | This 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | $25,000 | Winds 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Strong City | $100 | Highway 177 was closed due to river flooding along the Cottonwood River south of Strong City. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Strong City | - | Report received via mPing. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | A report via mPing of broken one inch tree limbs. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Strong City | - | Corrects previous report 3 west of Strong City. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | This wind gust was measured from a Kansas Mesonet site near Strong City. |
| September 2023 | Heavy Rain | Strong City | - | Law enforcement measured 2.25 inches of rain in about an hour and a half period of time. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Strong City | - | Report was received via mPING. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Strong City | - | Report was received via mPING. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Strong 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | This was another delayed report that provided no details. Therefore, the speed is estimated. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | The emergency manager reported the gust. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Strong City | - | Brief touchdown over open country. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | The Tallgrass Prairie Raws site measured the gust. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Strong City | - | The hail ranged from quarter to half-dollar size. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Strong City | - | Occurred in open country. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | Large trees blown down. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| February 2004 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Falls | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Neva | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Gladstone | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Ellinor | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Elmdale | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rockland | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Saffordville | 7.6 miles | 19 | |
| Bazaar | 8.6 miles | 12 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2088997 | 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 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.





