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Sun City, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sun City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67143. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sun City quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.

Sun City within Barber County

Population over time

2 figures

Sun City fell from 53 to 37 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
201053
202037-16 (-30%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sun City: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
National Gypsum Mine,Quarry,CrusherGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Sun City Mine & MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Barber County

Storms near this place

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sun City in 57 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 34 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 3 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
September 2009FloodSun City$10,000A county road near Sun City was closed due to flooding.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindSun City$1,000Six inch tree limb was blown down and a window blown out of a house.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSun City-Large tree blown down as well as extensive tree damage across town.
August 2019Heavy RainSun City-Rainfall of 2.77 inches was observed.
July 2015HailSun City-Leaves were stripped from the trees.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSun City-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
July 2014Heavy RainSun City-Rainfall of 3.75 was reported.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSun City-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
April 2013HailSun City-Most of the hail was pea sized.
April 2012FloodSun City-Water was flowing over rural roads. A five inch rain gauge overflowed.
April 2012Heavy RainSun City-Rainfall of 3.65 was reported and approximately a third of the streets in Sun City were reported to be flooded.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Sun City-This tornado moved into the county from Comanche county at 16:12 PM CDT.
June 2011HailSun City-There were only a few hail stones.
September 2009FloodSun City-Turkey Creek was flooding in the northwest part of Sun City.
July 2008Heavy RainSun City-Rainfall of 1.44 fell in 34 minutes.
March 2007Heavy RainSun City-Rainfall of 1.70 inches fell and there was extensive ponding of water in fields.
April 2006Tornado (F1)Sun City-This tornado crossed into Pratt county at 1940 CST. There was damage to sheds, barns, trees, fences, an oil tank and several pivot irrigation sprinklers.
May 2006HailSun City-There was significant wheat damage reported in the area.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindSun City-Three house windows were blown out.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSun City-Ten inch diameter tree limbs were blown down by the wind
June 2000Thunderstorm WindSun City-One inch tree branches blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSun City-Three inch diameter limbs blown down.
June 2022HailSun City-no account filed
June 2022HailSun City-no account filed
June 2022HailSun City-no account filed
July 2019HailSun City-no account filed
June 2017HailSun City-no account filed
June 2017HailSun City-no account filed
June 2017HailSun City-no account filed
August 2017HailSun City-no account filed
April 2013HailSun City-no account filed
July 2013HailSun City-no account filed
April 2012HailSun City-no account filed
April 2012HailSun City-no account filed
June 2011HailSun City-no account filed
September 2011HailSun City-no account filed
June 2009HailSun City-no account filed
June 2009HailSun City-no account filed
June 2008HailSun City-no account filed
May 2008HailSun City-no account filed
April 2006HailSun City-no account filed
May 2004HailSun City-no account filed
July 2003HailSun City-no account filed
June 2003HailSun City-no account filed
May 2002HailSun City-no account filed
May 2002HailSun City-no account filed
June 2001HailSun City-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSun City-no account filed
May 1999HailSun City-no account filed
November 1998HailSun City-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSun City-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSun City-no account filed
August 1996HailSun City-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSun City-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindSun City-no account filed
July 1996HailSun City-no account filed
April 1994HailSun City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barber 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
Lake City5.3 miles14
Deerhead9.7 miles14
Forest City10.6 miles14
Mingona12.5 miles14
Elm Mills12.7 miles14
Medicine Lodge19.0 miles14
Isabel20.3 miles14
Aetna20.5 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 Sun CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2132017The 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 470423. 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.

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.