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Timken, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Banner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67575. The Survey maps it on the Timken quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,965 feet above sea level.

Timken within Rush County

Population over time

2 figures

Timken fell from 76 to 38 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
201076
202038-38 (-50%)

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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Timken between 2015 and 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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/undetermined4

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
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service67
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRush County41272
17 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRush County39391
21 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRush County39010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rush County

Storms near this place

43 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Timken in 43 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 30 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindTimken$50,000A pivot irrigation sprinkler was blown over near mile marker 154 on Highway 96.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindTimken$50,000no account filed
July 2020Heavy RainTimken-Rainfall of 3.80 inches was observed.
May 2019FloodTimken-Water was over several roads from days of heavy rains.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindTimken-Winds were estimated to be around 65 MPH.
May 2017Flash FloodTimken-Water over the road at several places, including east of Timken and near Otis.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Timken-This was a brief and small tornado.
May 2011Heavy RainTimken-Rainfall of 1.50 fell, mainly during the evening.
May 2011HailTimken-The hail was even covering the ground.
May 2011HailTimken-This giant hail was outside a church that had hail penetrate the roof. There may have been bigger stones in the local vicinity.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Timken-This was a small tornado that was developing along with a wall cloud.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Timken-This large tornado developed very near Timken and appeared to be a multi-vortex tornado. Storm chasers said it moved slowly at first as it grew very large and then picked up speed as it dissipated north of the highway. Due to the vast amount of flooding in the area, there may have been damage greater that high-end EF1, or at least capable based on eye witness reports.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Timken-This was a slow moving landspout.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindTimken-Three inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
June 2020HailTimken-no account filed
June 2020HailTimken-no account filed
June 2020HailTimken-no account filed
April 2019HailTimken-no account filed
July 2018HailTimken-no account filed
July 2018HailTimken-no account filed
May 2018HailTimken-no account filed
May 2018HailTimken-no account filed
June 2017HailTimken-no account filed
August 2017HailTimken-no account filed
June 2015HailTimken-no account filed
July 2014HailTimken-no account filed
June 2013HailTimken-no account filed
May 2011HailTimken-no account filed
May 2011HailTimken-no account filed
June 2010HailTimken-no account filed
June 2010HailTimken-no account filed
October 2008Thunderstorm WindTimken-no account filed
June 2007HailTimken-no account filed
May 2007HailTimken-no account filed
June 2005HailTimken-no account filed
August 2005HailTimken-no account filed
July 2004HailTimken-no account filed
May 2002HailTimken-no account filed
May 1999HailTimken-no account filed
August 1998HailTimken-no account filed
September 1996HailTimken-no account filed
May 1995HailTimken-no account filed
May 1993HailTimken-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rush 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
Bison3.5 miles14
Schaffer4.7 miles15
Rush Center7.0 miles15
Otis7.9 miles14
La Crosse8.0 miles15
Loretta12.4 miles14
Nekoma14.0 miles15
Liebenthal14.6 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 TimkenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q588603The 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 485364. 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.