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Udall, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ninnescah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67146. The Survey maps it on the Udall quadrangle. 661 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.

Udall within Cowley County

Population over time

2 figures

Udall fell from 746 to 661 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
2010746
2020661-85 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

182 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Udall between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,026 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 were 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 burning106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use24
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreCowley Countynot named
27 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreCowley Countynot named
21 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresCowley Countynot named
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley Countynot named
17 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015150
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCowley Countynot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCowley Countynot named
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018235

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cowley County

Storms near this place

60 of 131 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Udall in 131 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 66 hail, 55 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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
June 1998Tornado (F0)Udall$500,000One barn and a few houses damaged.
September 2008Flash FloodUdall$250,000Cowley Highway 3 had water over the road 4 miles south of Udall.
April 2009FloodUdall$200,000Continued runoff from very heavy rainfall during the afternoon, evening and overnight hours on the 26th produced river flooding from the early afternoon hours on the 27th into the morning hours on the 29th along the Arkansas and Walnut Rivers, and their associated tributaries. Several rural and some city roads were closed due to high water. The Cowley county fairgrounds in Winfield were inundated by portions of the swollen Walnut River, including some buildings on the grounds. Property damage amounts are rough estimates, and crop damage estimates are unknown. The Winfield Courier contributed to this report.
June 1998HailUdall$200,000Softball to grapefruit-sized hail smashed windows and inflicted roof and siding damage to at least 20 homes. Also, at least 20 cars sustained broken windows.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindUdall$135,000Thunderstorm wind gusts caused extensive damage to several locations along the path of the channeled microburst. Damage included but was not limited to, blowing the second story of a barn off, tearing the front portion of a homes roof off, caving in part of a silo, flipping a plane over at the air strip, and completely destroying a metal pole barn.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindUdall$40,000Three barns were destroyed near the intersection of 102nd and 51st road.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindUdall$30,000A barn was destroyed near the intersection of 51st and 52nd Road.
August 2002LightningUdall$25,000Power poles equipped with transformers were struck, causing sporadic power outages across the northern half of the county.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindUdall$15,000A building collapsed about one-half mile east of the intersection of 31st and 32nd Roads.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindUdall$10,000An estimated wind gust to 60 to 70 mph broke some windows in a house. Golf ball sized hail was also reported.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindUdall$10,000Power lines downed, severing power to Udall.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUdall$8,000Some utility poles were downed in and around Udall. Information courtesy of the Winfield Courier.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindUdall$5,000A windmill was blown over about one-half mile south of 92nd Road along County Line Road.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindUdall$5,000A barn roof was damaged just west of Udall.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindUdall$5,000Unspecified roof damage to a few homes on south side of town.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindUdall$5,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindUdall$1,000A carport collapsed a few miles north of Highway 15 along 31st Road.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindUdall$1,000Large tree branches were also blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindUdall$500A one foot diameter tree branch was blown down.
May 2019Flash FloodUdall$100Numerous roads were reported flooded near Udall.
April 1994HailUdall$50no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindUdall-This wind gust was estimated.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindUdall-A public report via social media of an estimated 70 mph wind gust in Udall.
May 2019HailUdall-The hail partially covered the ground.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindUdall-Dime size hail was also reported.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindUdall-The winds were reported by a spotter on 11th Avenue just northwest of Udall.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindUdall-Reported by the Emergency Manager.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindUdall-A branch about 8 inches in diameter was broken off of a tree. This report was via social media.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindUdall-The trained spotter estimated 55 to 60 mph gusts.
May 2016HailUdall-Seventy percent of the ground is covered.
June 2014HailUdall-Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindUdall-No damage was reported.
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Udall-A tornado moved through a farmstead and caused minor damage.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Udall-Tornado moved over open country.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindUdall-Numerous limbs were knocked down in Udall.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindUdall-Numerous large trees were uprooted in town.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindUdall-No damage was reported.
September 2010HailUdall-The large hail varied in size from tennis ball to golfball size.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindUdall-Report was via a KSN Weatherlab site.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindUdall-Downed five-inch diaemeter limbs.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindUdall-Measured with radar gun.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindUdall-AGTAP CL105.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindUdall-Unspecified roof damage.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Udall-Brief event.
May 2002Flash FloodUdall-Intersections at 42nd/31st streets and 42nd/21st streets under water.
May 2001HailUdall-Covered the ground.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindUdall-Three-four inch diameter limbs blown down.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindUdall-Limbs blown down.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindUdall-Many trees blown down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindUdall-no account filed
May 2022HailUdall-no account filed
May 2019HailUdall-no account filed
May 2018HailUdall-no account filed
May 2018HailUdall-no account filed
May 2016HailUdall-no account filed
May 2016HailUdall-no account filed
May 2016HailUdall-no account filed
May 2016HailUdall-no account filed
May 2016HailUdall-no account filed
April 2015HailUdall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cowley 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
Dale4.7 miles14
Akron5.8 miles14
Rock6.8 miles14
Kellogg8.9 miles14
Floral10.5 miles14
Winfield12.0 miles14
Wilmot12.7 miles14
New Salem12.8 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 UdallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2615619The 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 470218. 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.