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Troy, Kansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66087. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle. 964 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

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Troy within Doniphan County

On record in Troy

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 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Troy grew from 131 to 964 between 1860 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
1860131
20101,010
2020964-46 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 2015 and 2018, burning about 14 acres 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service12
9 March 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service5
31 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service13
31 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service12
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service14
12 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service11
11 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service10
11 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Doniphan County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2002Thunderstorm WindTroy$15,000Roof blown off a metal machine shed. Two other metal sheds were destroyed and a barn and residence had roof damage.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindTroy-Social media report of downed power poles near Troy.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindTroy-Tree limbs down in the area, with 60 mph estimated winds.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindTroy-Emergency Manager reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts.
May 2016HailTroy-This report was gathered via social media.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTroy-A large tree of unknown condition or size was down on Seneca Street in Troy. Various tree limbs were also down across town.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTroy-Several trees of unknown size or condition were down.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindTroy-A spotter estimated winds to be around 65 mph.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindTroy-Large tree reported down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindTroy-Wind gusts to 70 mph were reported by the public.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindTroy-The fire department estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTroy-The Doniphan County Sheriff Office reported a 60 MPH wind gust a mile east of Troy.
June 1997HailTroy-Dime-size hail was reported by the sheriff's office 7 miles west of Troy during a severe thunderstorm.
March 1995HailTroy-Time estimated.
May 2019HailTroy-no account filed
October 2013HailTroy-no account filed
June 2011HailTroy-no account filed
June 2011HailTroy-no account filed
May 2004HailTroy-no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindTroy-no account filed
April 2001HailTroy-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindTroy-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindTroy-no account filed
July 2001HailTroy-no account filed
May 2000HailTroy-no account filed
June 2000HailTroy-no account filed
April 1995HailTroy-no account filed
April 1995HailTroy-no account filed
March 1993HailTroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Doniphan 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
Brenner4.2 miles27
Moray4.6 miles23
Blair4.6 miles23
Fanning5.2 miles23
Bendena5.6 miles27
Palermo6.9 miles18
Sparks7.4 miles23
Wathena7.6 miles21

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 TroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1863258The 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 473041. 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.