Waverly, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66871. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle. 574 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaverly fell from 592 to 574 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 | 592 | |
| 2020 | 574 | -18 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
34 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Waverly between 2015 and 2020, burning about 542 acres in total. 1 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 | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 217 |
| 5 April 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Coffey County | 194 |
| 4 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Coffey County | 191 |
| 28 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 290 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 289 |
| 17 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Coffey County | 219 |
| 10 April 2018 | Smoking | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 235 |
| 9 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 21 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly in 40 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 22 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Lightning | Waverly | 1 killed | A Kansas man died after being struck by a bolt of lightning. It happened just after 8:15 p.m. Saturday in Coffey County near Waverly.||Coffey County officials say Ronald Nicholas, 68, was outside in his front yard when he was hit. He was hosting a family gathering to celebrate the Fourth of July when the accident happened.||Officials say the storm was not directly over Nicholas' home. He was killed by a stray bolt of lightning from a nearby storm. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Waverly | $50,000 | Water reported flowing 6 to 10 inches deep over bridge on highway 31. Fast flowing water at least 4 inches deep over highway 81. Fast flowing water at least 4 inches deep over 17th and Plantar road. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Waverly | $15,000 | Large hail damaged a few car windows as well as some roof and window damage on a few homes in the Waverly area. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | $8,000 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Flash Flood | Waverly | $5,000 | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused several inches of flowing water across roads in Waverly. Officials also reported 6 to 8 inches of flowing water over roads in northwest parts of Coffey County. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | $1,000 | Strong winds blew out windows. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | $200 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Tree damage also reported. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Damaging wind gust of 60 mph. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Waverly | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Waverly | - | Quarter hail reported. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Tree limbs around 6 inches in diameter were snapped and a roof shed was damaged. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Waverly | - | Quarter size hail and winds to around 60 mph estimated on Interstate-35. |
| April 2012 | Flash Flood | Waverly | - | Water was reported over the road at the intersection of Road 24 and Trefoil Road, approximately 1 mile south of Waverly. Road 22 also had some running water, approximately the same time. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Waverly | - | This was a brief touchdown. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Waverly | - | Several homes along this path were significantly damaged by the softball size hail, specifically those nearest Hwy 31. There were also reports that one to two thousand acres of crops were significantly damaged. |
| February 2007 | Hail | Waverly | - | Golfball sized hailed reported to be falling 5 miles east of Beto Junction. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Waverly | - | Also falling over other parts of northeastern Coffey county. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Blew shingles off spotters roof. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Waverly | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricola | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Beto Junction | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Halls Summit | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Sharpe | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| New Strawn | 11.7 miles | 16 | |
| Ottumwa | 13.1 miles | 16 | |
| Lebo | 13.3 miles | 17 | |
| Burlington | 15.6 miles | 17 |
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 Waverly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666573 | 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 477570. 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.








