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Walnut, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66780. The Survey maps it on the Walnut quadrangle. 187 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Walnut within Crawford County

On record in Walnut

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

Population over time

2 figures

Walnut fell from 220 to 187 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
2010220
2020187-33 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Walnut in 2017, burning about 5 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
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
7 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNeosho County201703

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2000Tornado (F2)Walnut$200,000no account filed
February 2017Thunderstorm WindWalnut$10,000Several trees were blown down and blocked roads. Several power poles were blown down. A garage door was blown inward.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindWalnut$5,000A large barn was destroyed near Walnut, estimated at $30,000.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindWalnut$4,000no account filed
April 2026HailWalnut-Half dollar size hail was reported.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWalnut-A large tree was uprooted. Report received via social media.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWalnut-A few large limbs were downed in Walnut.
March 2011HailWalnut-A coop observer reported mostly pea sized hail with some nickel and penny sized hail mixed in.
October 2009Flash FloodWalnut-A low water crossing near the intersection of County Road 700 and 30th Street was flooded and impassable.
March 2008FloodWalnut-Moderate street flooding was observed in Pittsburg for several hours. Other low lying roads across the county were also inundated with flooding.
March 2008Flash FloodWalnut-Two inches of rain fell over southeast Crawford County. Minor flooding occurred over lowlands along Cowskin Creek.
May 2008Flash FloodWalnut-Three to six inches of rain fell over Crawford County. Nearly all locations that experiences flooding during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded. The area that was impacted the greatest was Cowskin Creek. Numerous areas near the city of Pittsburg were flooded including Lincoln Park and a mobile home park near Quincy and Lonestar Streets.
June 2008Flash FloodWalnut-Excessive rain caused nearly all low water crossings across the county to flood. The Pittsburg area appeared to have been impacted with the greatest flooding as several city streets were affected.
July 2007Flash FloodWalnut-Excessive rainfall combined with moist soil conditions caused flash flooding in areas of Crawford County. Locations flooded included Highway 7 from Highway 47 to Highway 39, a section of Highway 277, and a section of Highway 3.
July 1997Flash FloodWalnut-Two inches of rain fell in an hour causing flooding of creeks and low lying areas.
August 2017HailWalnut-no account filed
May 2008HailWalnut-no account filed
March 2008HailWalnut-no account filed
March 2006HailWalnut-no account filed
May 2004HailWalnut-no account filed
August 2003HailWalnut-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindWalnut-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindWalnut-no account filed
May 1999HailWalnut-no account filed
August 1998Flash FloodWalnut-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindWalnut-no account filed
April 1994HailWalnut-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Brazilton7.0 miles22
Hepler7.1 miles22
Greenbush7.7 miles22
Farlington13.3 miles22
Girard14.2 miles22
Beulah17.3 miles21
McCune17.3 miles18
Ringo17.9 miles22

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 WalnutAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2363375The 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 475128. 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.