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.
Population over time
2 figuresTimken 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 76 | |
| 2020 | 38 | -38 (-50%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Larned quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Larned quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Timken quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Larned quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 67 |
| 24 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rush County | 41272 |
| 17 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rush County | 39391 |
| 21 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rush County | 39010 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
43 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timken | $50,000 | A pivot irrigation sprinkler was blown over near mile marker 154 on Highway 96. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timken | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Timken | - | Rainfall of 3.80 inches was observed. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Timken | - | Water was over several roads from days of heavy rains. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timken | - | Winds were estimated to be around 65 MPH. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Timken | - | Water over the road at several places, including east of Timken and near Otis. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Timken | - | This was a brief and small tornado. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Timken | - | Rainfall of 1.50 fell, mainly during the evening. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Timken | - | The hail was even covering the ground. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Timken | - | This giant hail was outside a church that had hail penetrate the roof. There may have been bigger stones in the local vicinity. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Timken | - | This was a small tornado that was developing along with a wall cloud. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (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 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Timken | - | This was a slow moving landspout. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timken | - | Three inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Timken | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bison | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Schaffer | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Rush Center | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Otis | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| La Crosse | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Loretta | 12.4 miles | 14 | |
| Nekoma | 14.0 miles | 15 | |
| Liebenthal | 14.6 miles | 14 |
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 Timken | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q588603 | The 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.






