Walker, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Herzog Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67674. The Survey maps it on the Walker quadrangle. It stands 1,942 feet above sea level.
On record in Walker
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
Fort Fletcher Stone Arch Bridgelisted 2001
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1896 USGS Hays quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Walker quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hays quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Walker between 2015 and 2020, burning about 476 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Ellis County | 017-272 |
| 12 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0154 |
| 8 August 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 227 |
| 7 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0091 |
| 22 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Russell County | 19 |
| 20 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Russell County | 18 |
| 13 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0094 |
| 9 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 51918 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walker in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Hail | Walker | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | $5,000 | Power lines blown down...few trees uprooted. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Mesonet Station UP853 Walker. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Mesonet site at Walker on I-70. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | Rainfall of 2.31 inches was observed. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | Rainfall of 2.45 inches fell during this period. |
| July 2008 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | Rainfall of 4.40 fell. |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | The observer received 4 inches of rain from 600 PM until 730 PM. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Walker | - | This small tornado was in contact with the ground for just a short preiod. Nothing was hit. |
| July 1998 | Flash Flood | Walker | - | Water was three feet over the road. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Walker | - | Siding damaged and windows broken. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Walker | - | Wind of 70 to 80 mph with the hail. A grain bin was destroyed by the winds while numerous cars and homes were damaged by the hail. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Walker | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walker | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Walker | - | 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 Walker | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7962187 | 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 475301. 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.





