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Tescott, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Morton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67484. The Survey maps it on the Tescott quadrangle. 265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.

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Tescott within Ottawa County

Population over time

2 figures

Tescott fell from 319 to 265 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
2010319
2020265-54 (-17%)

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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Tescott between 2015 and 2018, burning about 140 acres 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 June 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service62018
10 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service72018
8 February 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service22018
21 February 2017Debris and open burning20 acresOttawa County42017
17 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresKansas Forest Service2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Storms near this place

60 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tescott in 76 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 38 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 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 2025FloodTescott$3,590,000Widespread flooding in Tescott. Water up to porch level on several houses. One to two feet of water in many locations. 3.5 million dollars in damage in the town, plus 90000 dollars in damage to the local school.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindTescott$2,000Strong winds blew down power lines east of Tescott.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindTescott$2,000Strong winds knocked down power lines.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTescott-Reported by personal weather station.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindTescott-Estimated 60 mph gust in Tescott.
September 2025FloodTescott-K-18 closed due to flooding.
September 2025FloodTescott-Water reported to be three to four feet over Kansas Ave.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindTescott-Report of 60 mph winds at Tescott.
July 2023HailTescott-Golf ball sized hail reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTescott-Wind gust of 70 mph reported.
July 2023HailTescott-Half dollar sized hail reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTescott-Several tree limbs about six inches in diameter blown down.
May 2022HailTescott-Quarter sized hail reported.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindTescott-Wind gust of 60 mph, no damage observed.
September 2022HailTescott-Hail covering the ground, up to the size of ping pong balls.
September 2022HailTescott-Half dollar sized hail reported.
August 2021HailTescott-Quarter sized hail reported.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTescott-Trained spotter reported 8 inch tree limb down.
May 2020HailTescott-Quarter size hail reported.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTescott-Tree damage around Buffalo Road with a possible funnel cloud reported.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTescott-Several windows blown out in homes. Numerous trees and power lines were snapped.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Tescott-Public report relayed by Sheriff of a brief tornado in open field did no damage.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindTescott-Wind gust was estimated by a trained spotter.
May 2018Tornado (EF3)Tescott-A strong tornado developed in far northwestern Saline county Kansas around 744pm CDT and moved northeast into Ottawa County doing damage to several structures including a single family home. The tornado was well documented by numerous chasers and become wide with multiple vortices noted on video. The lack of DIs in this part of Kansas can be a challenge when it comes to rating tornadoes and using the traditional methodology of DIs yielded a EF3 rating. The tornado dissipated just to the southwest of Minneapolis, KS around 810 pm CDT.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindTescott-Estimated wind speeds of 60 MPH.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindTescott-Tree limbs 2-3 inches in diameter were reported down.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindTescott-Estimated wind gust.
May 2016HailTescott-Mostly dime sized hail.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Tescott-Off duty NWS employee reported a brief tornado that lasted around 90 seconds in an open field.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTescott-Large tree was split in half.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindTescott-Numerous tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter down across town.
November 2012Thunderstorm WindTescott-A trained spotter near Tescott reported a 60 mph wind gust.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindTescott-A trained spotter near Tescott reported a 60 mph wind gust.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTescott-A 6 inch tree limb broke at a residence near Tescott. a 4 foot Cottonwood tree was blown down by the strong winds. Time was estimated by the spotter.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindTescott-The first report from this storm as it entered Ottawa county was received at 1010 am CST from law enforcement officers. The strongest part of the storm passed to the south of Ottawa County; however; the northern extent of the bow echo feature moved through the southern half of the county. Aside from trees being reported down across the southern part of the County, namely in Tescott, damage was mostly negligible. The county reported no cost in damages from the storm as it moved through.
April 2009HailTescott-Nickel size hail covering the ground.
May 2019HailTescott-no account filed
May 2015HailTescott-no account filed
June 2015HailTescott-no account filed
June 2015HailTescott-no account filed
June 2015HailTescott-no account filed
May 2012HailTescott-no account filed
April 2011HailTescott-no account filed
July 2011HailTescott-no account filed
June 2008HailTescott-no account filed
April 2006HailTescott-no account filed
February 2004HailTescott-no account filed
June 2004HailTescott-no account filed
May 2004HailTescott-no account filed
May 2003HailTescott-no account filed
May 2003HailTescott-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTescott-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindTescott-no account filed
May 2002HailTescott-no account filed
May 2002HailTescott-no account filed
May 2002HailTescott-no account filed
July 2002HailTescott-no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindTescott-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindTescott-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindTescott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Culver6.7 miles16
Brewer9.3 miles14
Ada9.9 miles14
Alfmil11.8 miles14
Minneapolis11.9 miles15
Lindsey12.0 miles15
Bennington15.0 miles14
Sumnerville15.0 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 TescottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2185333The 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 476454. 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.