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Sublette, Kansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Haskell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67877. The Survey maps it on the Sublette quadrangle. 1,413 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,913 feet above sea level.

Sublette within Haskell County

Population over time

2 figures

Sublette fell from 1,453 to 1,413 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
20101,453
20201,413-40 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sublette in 2017, burning under an acre 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
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
22 June 2017Naturalunder an acreHaskell County22

Every fire recorded in Haskell County

Storms near this place

60 of 195 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sublette in 195 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 105 hail, 67 thunderstorm wind, 11 tornado, 10 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
November 2016Thunderstorm WindSublette$1,800,000There was heavy tree damage in Sublette. At least 2 dozen pivot sprinkler irrigation sprinklers were overturned or destroyed, mainly west and north of Sublette. There were a few sprinklers reported damaged south of town town. There was video of the downburst wind moving through town with a few brief gustnadoes observed on the leading edge of the wall of dirt that was picked up.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Sublette$1,000,000This tornado did high end EF1 damage to Pivot irrigation sprinklers along with other damage to several outbuildings and eight large grain bins. A semi was flipped and carried into a field.
May 1996Tornado (F2)Sublette$100,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindSublette$55,000Pivot irrigation sprinkler blown over. Siding was blown off from a nearby house and a window was broken.
June 1999Tornado (F1)Sublette$11,000Machine shed heavily damaged, horse trailer turned over and windows blown out of a trailer.
May 1996Tornado (F0)Sublette$10,000no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Sublette$5,000no account filed
August 2009HailSublette$3,000Windows were broken out of the house.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindSublette$2,000Power poles blown down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSublette$1,000Tree limbs blown down.
August 2025Flash FloodSublette-A public mPing report of street/road flooding, street/road closures, and vehicles stranded.
August 2025HailSublette-A public report from social media had 2 inch hail with pictures. Another public report nearby of 1 inch hail around the same time.
May 2024Heavy RainSublette-Rainfall report of 2.20 inches.
May 2024Heavy RainSublette-A rainfall report of 2.00 inches.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSublette-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by emergency management.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSublette-One inch tree limbs broken.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindSublette-Pictures on social media show tree damage and windows blown out of the bowling alley in Sublette.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindSublette-Pivot springlers blown over.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSublette-Reported by Law Enforcement.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSublette-Reported by law enforcement.
July 2018Heavy RainSublette-Rainfall of 4.44 inches was observed.
July 2018Heavy RainSublette-Rainfall of 2.96 inches was measured.
August 2018Heavy RainSublette-Rainfall of 2.60 inches was observed.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSublette-A roof of a mobile home was destroyed by the high wind.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSublette-A roof was partially torn off an office at a motel. Several large limbs were blown down as well.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSublette-Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH.
July 2012Heavy RainSublette-Rainfall of 2.90 was observed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSublette-Winds were estimated to be gusting to 70 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSublette-A wind gust to 60 mph was estimated at this location.
August 2009Heavy RainSublette-Rainfall of 3.00 was observed in one hour.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSublette-There was also pea sized hail.
April 2009HailSublette-The hail broke out a window of a house and damaged vehicle windows.
June 2008Heavy RainSublette-The heavy rain produced a tremendous amount of runoff that caused the sewer system in Sublette to overrun it's capacity. The residents were asked not to use facilities for about 48 hours after the event.
October 2008HailSublette-The hail ranged in size from pea to nickel sized.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSublette-The wind blew from west to east across highway 83 north of Sublette...estimated by off duty NWS employee.
May 2006Tornado (F1)Sublette-This tornado started in Finney county and cross the county line. Three pivot sprinklers were damaged and there was also tree damage.
May 2006Tornado (F1)Sublette-This was smaller tornado associated with the storm that produced a bigger tornado. This one damage a pivot irrigation sprinkler.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSublette-Four inch diameter tree limbs were broken and blown down by the high wind.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSublette-Two to four inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSublette-Three inch diameter tree branches were broken.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSublette-A power pole was blown down and 3 semi trucks were blown over.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Sublette-This weak tornado moved southwest also.
April 2005Tornado (F0)Sublette-This was brief tornado
May 2005Thunderstorm WindSublette-Recorded at a KSN weather lab site.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindSublette-Four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Sublette-This tornado touched down about 1/4 mile south of 190 Road and 1/2 mile east of SS Road at 1745 CST. No evident damage was observed until the tornado reached a residence near 230 Road and UU Road at around 1752 CST. A roof of a deck was lifted and blown about 100 feet. The tornado moved south-southeast, damaging part of a center pivot sprinkler system and then crossed into northeastern Seward county before turning east. Damaged sprinkler systems were found 0.6 miles east of Road T and 1/4 mile north of Road 23. The last damage evident was a partially rolled sprinkler and 1/4 mile south of Road 23 and just east of Road X.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindSublette-Large tree limbs were blown down
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSublette-The wind gust was measured by a KSN/AWS weather lab site
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSublette-Nine power poles were broken
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSublette-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSublette-Six inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindSublette-80 MPH wind blew 4 inch limbs down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSublette-Eight inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
June 1999HailSublette-High wind with the hail devestated crops in the area.
May 1998HailSublette-Tree limbs down...probably from the hail.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindSublette-Sheds and power poles down.
May 1994HailSublette-Estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
April 1993Tornado (F0)Sublette-Tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindSublette-Large tree limbs were knocked down.
June 2024HailSublette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Haskell 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
Tice6.6 miles12
Satanta7.5 miles8

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 SubletteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q601626The 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 470607. 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.