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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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
Doniphan County Courthouselisted 1974
Doniphan County Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 2002
George Kinkhead Barnlisted 1987- Nicholas Bohr Barnlisted 1987
- Doniphan County Waddelllisted 1990
Population over time
3 figuresTroy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 131 | |
| 2010 | 1,010 | |
| 2020 | 964 | -46 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 23 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.
- 1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1926 USGS Oregon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Troy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 9 March 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 13 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 12 |
| 31 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
| 12 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
| 11 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | $15,000 | Roof blown off a metal machine shed. Two other metal sheds were destroyed and a barn and residence had roof damage. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Social media report of downed power poles near Troy. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Tree limbs down in the area, with 60 mph estimated winds. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Emergency Manager reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Troy | - | This report was gathered via social media. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | A large tree of unknown condition or size was down on Seneca Street in Troy. Various tree limbs were also down across town. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Several trees of unknown size or condition were down. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | A spotter estimated winds to be around 65 mph. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Large tree reported down. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Wind gusts to 70 mph were reported by the public. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | The fire department estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | The Doniphan County Sheriff Office reported a 60 MPH wind gust a mile east of Troy. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Troy | - | Dime-size hail was reported by the sheriff's office 7 miles west of Troy during a severe thunderstorm. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Troy | - | Time estimated. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Troy | - | 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.
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 Troy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1863258 | 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 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.










