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Syracuse, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Syracuse Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67878. It stands on Syracuse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Syracuse West quadrangle. 1,826 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,232 feet above sea level.

Syracuse within Hamilton County

On record in Syracuse

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

Syracuse grew from 1,812 to 1,826 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
20101,812
20201,826+14 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Syracuse between 2015 and 2018, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
5 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500008
29 July 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800012
11 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1600027

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

60 of 294 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Syracuse in 294 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 177 hail, 95 thunderstorm wind, 9 heavy rain, 7 tornado. 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 1993HailSyracuse$50,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindSyracuse$10,000Grain bin destroyed.
June 1994HailSyracuse$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailSyracuse$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSyracuse$2,000Four power poles destroyed.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSyracuse$2,000Power poles down across highway 27.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSyracuse$2,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSyracuse$1,000A couple of power poles were blown down.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSyracuse$1,000no account filed
June 1994HailSyracuse$500no account filed
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-AWOS station K3K3 Syracuse recorded a 69 mph wind gust.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-AWOS station K3K3 Syracuse recorded a 59 mph wind gust.
August 2025HailSyracuse-A storm chaser reported 2.75 inch hail and included pictures via social media.
August 2025HailSyracuse-Public reported 2 inch hail.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-AWOS station K3K3 Syracuse recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Reported by a mesonet station.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Measured by the AWOS station at Syracuse.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH.
May 2020Tornado (EF0)Syracuse-This was another landspout tornado.
July 2020Heavy RainSyracuse-Rainfall of 2.96 inches was observed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Measured on a home weather station.
June 2019Flash FloodSyracuse-Water was crossing Highway 27 near CR13.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
August 2019Funnel CloudSyracuse-There was a rotating wall cloud with funnel cloud observed.
July 2018Tornado (EF0)Syracuse-A land spout tornado moved south and then turned west before dissipating.
August 2018Heavy RainSyracuse-Rainfall of 2.42 inches was observed.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Wind gusts to 60 MPH were observed.
July 2017Heavy RainSyracuse-Rainfall was 5.40 inches.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2014HailSyracuse-Hail fell for about 40 minutes and increased in size with time. The largest and most damaging hail fell after 11 PM MDT. Damage was done to vehicles, bent 26 gauge roofing, and left dents in the ground.
June 2014HailSyracuse-The hail was dime to quarter sized.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Syracuse-This was a brief tornado that did not hit anything.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-An irrigation sprinkler was overturned by the high wind.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Numerous power poles were downed by high wind. Two hay buildings had their roofs blown off.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-A few minutes before the gust part of a roof at the airport was blown onto a few vehicles.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Power poles were snapped along road 35, 14 miles south of Syracuse.
April 2010Heavy RainSyracuse-Rainfall of 1.90 inches fell in a short period at a location 18 miles south-southwest of Syracuse.
June 2010HailSyracuse-The hail was pea to quarter sized.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-This wind was measured by the KSN Weatherlab at the Syracuse Jr/Sr High School.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Tree limbs six to eight inches in diameter were broken.
June 2008HailSyracuse-One inch diameter hail was also reported by the broadcast media in the same area.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Syracuse-This landspout tornado was observed by weather modification pilots from the air and from the ground. It occurred over native grass land.
August 2008Heavy RainSyracuse-Rainfall of 1.20 was measured in a short period.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-JR/SR high school KSN weather lab report.
March 2007FloodSyracuse-A continued problem from February where runoff from snow melt caused flooding in the county. Many roads were impassable or damaged for a long period of time.
March 2007FloodSyracuse-A continued problem from February where runoff from snow melt caused flooding in the county. Many roads were impassable or damaged for a long period of time.
July 2007Heavy RainSyracuse-Two and one half inches of rain fell during the 24 hour period.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-A 20 by 150 foot tin roof was torn from metal poles. The roof was welded to the poles.
June 2007HailSyracuse-Just a few hail stones fell but they were big.
June 2006HailSyracuse-Also had wind gusts to 50 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Semi rolled over.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Car rolled over by the high wind.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-The overhang of a roof of a house was removed. Many other houses in the area reported some damage.
June 2006HailSyracuse-Also had wind gusts to 55 mph with the hail
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSyracuse-Three semi trucks blown over by the high wind.
August 2006FloodSyracuse-Roads were flooded in Syracuse and water was reported in some basements.
August 2006Heavy RainSyracuse-4.30 inches of rain fell overnight
August 2006Heavy RainSyracuse-4.50 inches of rain fell overnight.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Mayline5.1 miles14
Medway7.2 miles9
Kendall11.4 miles14
Coolidge14.2 miles17

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 SyracuseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1931559The 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 471583. 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.