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Walton, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Walton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67151. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle. 219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.

Walton within Harvey County

Population over time

2 figures

Walton fell from 235 to 219 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
2010235
2020219-16 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

18 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Walton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service59
6 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresHarvey County1701879
11 April 2017Debris and open burning80 acresHarvey County52
28 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresHarvey County175
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresHarvey County45
21 March 2015Debris and open burning160 acresKansas Forest Service25
21 March 2015Arson/incendiarism10 acresKansas Forest Service23
18 March 2017Debris and open burning10 acresHarvey County31

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harvey 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
North Newton5.7 miles16
Newton6.8 miles16
Zimmerdale7.1 miles18
McLains8.2 miles14
Sand Creek8.4 miles16
Hesston9.4 miles15
McGraw9.4 miles16
Annelly10.5 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 WaltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673371The 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 478007. 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.