Utica, Kansas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67584. The Survey maps it on the Utica quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,625 feet above sea level.
On record in Utica
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 1 record
Thornburg Barnlisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresUtica fell from 158 to 99 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 | 158 | |
| 2020 | 99 | -59 (-37%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Scott City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Utica quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Healy 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 Utica between 2015 and 2017, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15U0919 |
| 9 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Ness County | 17U0392 |
| 14 October 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15U1014 |
| 11 October 2016 | Natural | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 16U1011 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 82 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Utica in 82 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 59 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | $50,000 | Ness County Sheriff's Office reported barn blown down and power poles down from thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Utica | - | A public report of 1 inch hail. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Utica | - | Rainfall of 4.50 inches was observed. Most of the rain fell during the late evening hours. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | A large tree limb was broken by the high wind. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Numerous tree branches of 2 to 4 inches were broken by the high wind. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Utica | - | Rainfall of 3.45 inches was reported at Utica. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | A few small tree limbs were blown down by the 60 MPH wind. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Utica | - | There was also 1.05 of rainfall. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Utica | - | Water was reported over a road. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Utica | - | Most of the hail was between ping pong ball and golf ball size with just a few between hen egg and tennis ball size. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Winds were estimated to be at least 70 MPH. The roof off a barn was removed by the high wind and most outbuildings were damaged. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Utica | - | Sporadic golf ball sized hail was reported. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Utica | - | Smaller hail fell for about 30 hours from 530 PM until 830 PM. |
| July 2009 | Heavy Rain | Utica | - | Heavy rainfall of 4.00 fell in an hours time. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Utica | - | The hail fell for 20 minutes. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Utica | - | The hail ranged in size from pea to quarter sized. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Utica | - | Quarter sized hail fell for 20 minutes. |
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Utica | - | This tornado formed as the mesocyclone occluded but did not strike anything to cause damage. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | A cattle shed and lean two were destroyed by the high wind. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Utica | - | The tornado curved back to the northwest before dissipating. It caused EF1 damage at a farm where a 40 by 60 foot shed was destroyed. The tornado also took down fencing. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | One to 1 1/2 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | Utica | - | Rainfall of 3.34 inches was reported during the afternoon. |
| July 2007 | Heavy Rain | Utica | - | Rainfall of 3.30 inches fell overnight. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Several six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken by the wind. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Two inch tree branches broken. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | Five inch tree limbs blown down. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Utica | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Utica | - | 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 Utica | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2210126 | 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 471453. 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.



