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Summerfield, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Bridget Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66541. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle. 125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,516 feet above sea level.

Summerfield within Marshall County

On record in Summerfield

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Summerfield fell from 156 to 125 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
2010156
2020125-31 (-20%)

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

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield between 2007 and 2018, burning about 296 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
23 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMarshall County120
17 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service134
5 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMarshall County118
17 April 2007Debris and open burning80 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2015Debris and open burning80 acresKansas Forest Service78
5 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service128
19 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMarshall County114
11 March 2015Debris and open burning120 acresKansas Forest Service79

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
May 1999Tornado (F1)Summerfield$1,000A tornado touched down at a farm and lifted a machine shed over a house before destroying the shed.
May 2005Flash FloodSummerfield$500Heavy rain brought rapid flowing water over K-99.
May 2025HailSummerfield-Ping pong ball size hail in Summerfield.
April 2023HailSummerfield-Ping pong sized hail reported via social media.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-A portion of a roof on a home was blown off. 3 to 5 power poles were down as well.
April 2016HailSummerfield-Reported via social media.
July 2015Flash FloodSummerfield-Road damage reported due to flash flooding at the intersection of 21st and Cherokee rd.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-Wind gusts estimated.
September 2007HailSummerfield-Spotter also reported 4 inches of rain had fallen in the past 2 hours.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Summerfield-A tornado touched down southwest of Summerfield and traveled 1 mile over open country before dissipating.
June 2014HailSummerfield-no account filed
May 2013HailSummerfield-no account filed
May 2013HailSummerfield-no account filed
May 2013HailSummerfield-no account filed
May 2013HailSummerfield-no account filed
April 2012HailSummerfield-no account filed
April 2012HailSummerfield-no account filed
May 2002HailSummerfield-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-no account filed
May 1997HailSummerfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Saint Bridget5.1 miles15
Summit6.9 miles15
Axtell9.9 miles15
Beattie10.1 miles14
Oketo13.4 miles14
Home14.0 miles14
Marietta14.2 miles14
Upland16.1 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 SummerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q774722The 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 472705. 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.