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.
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
- Little Walnut Creek Bowstringlisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresWalnut 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 220 | |
| 2020 | 187 | -33 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 21 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.
- 1886 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Erie quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Erie quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Walnut quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 January 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Neosho County | 201703 |
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2000 | Tornado (F2) | Walnut | $200,000 | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | $10,000 | Several trees were blown down and blocked roads. Several power poles were blown down. A garage door was blown inward. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | $5,000 | A large barn was destroyed near Walnut, estimated at $30,000. |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Walnut | - | Half dollar size hail was reported. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | A large tree was uprooted. Report received via social media. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | A few large limbs were downed in Walnut. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Walnut | - | A coop observer reported mostly pea sized hail with some nickel and penny sized hail mixed in. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | A low water crossing near the intersection of County Road 700 and 30th Street was flooded and impassable. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Walnut | - | Moderate street flooding was observed in Pittsburg for several hours. Other low lying roads across the county were also inundated with flooding. |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | Two inches of rain fell over southeast Crawford County. Minor flooding occurred over lowlands along Cowskin Creek. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | 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 1997 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | Two inches of rain fell in an hour causing flooding of creeks and low lying areas. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Walnut | - | 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 Walnut | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2363375 | 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 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.












