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Virgil, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66870. It stands on Greenhall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Virgil quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Virgil within Greenwood County

Population over time

2 figures

Virgil fell from 71 to 48 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
201071
202048-23 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Virgil between 2015 and 2018, burning about 26 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service121
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKansas Forest Service73
26 February 2017Debris and open burning10 acresGreenwood County27

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Virgil in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2021Heavy RainVirgil-A mesonet reported 5.57 inches.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindVirgil-Several lawn chairs were blown over.
March 2003HailVirgil-Co-op observer.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindVirgil-no account filed
April 2006HailVirgil-no account filed
June 2005HailVirgil-no account filed
June 1998HailVirgil-no account filed
June 1998HailVirgil-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Hilltop5.4 miles16
Quincy6.9 miles17
Bisbee7.1 miles16
Hamilton8.2 miles14
Lamont9.1 miles16
Neal10.8 miles14
Rocky Ford11.5 miles14
Tonovay12.6 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 VirgilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2151162The 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 474448. 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.