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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.

Waverly within Coffey County

Population over time

2 figures

Waverly 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.

YearPeople Change
2010592
2020574-18 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

34 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning15
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
5 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service217
5 April 2017Naturalunder an acreCoffey County194
4 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCoffey County191
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service290
28 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service289
17 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresCoffey County219
10 April 2018Smoking30 acresKansas Forest Service235
9 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffey County

Storms near this place

40 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012LightningWaverly1 killedA 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 2007Flash FloodWaverly$50,000Water 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 2003HailWaverly$15,000Large hail damaged a few car windows as well as some roof and window damage on a few homes in the Waverly area.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWaverly$8,000no account filed
May 2006Flash FloodWaverly$5,000Heavy 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 2002Thunderstorm WindWaverly$1,000Strong winds blew out windows.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWaverly$200no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Tree damage also reported.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Damaging wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2020HailWaverly-Quarter size hail reported.
May 2020HailWaverly-Quarter hail reported.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Tree limbs around 6 inches in diameter were snapped and a roof shed was damaged.
April 2016HailWaverly-Quarter size hail and winds to around 60 mph estimated on Interstate-35.
April 2012Flash FloodWaverly-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 2009Tornado (EF0)Waverly-This was a brief touchdown.
June 2008HailWaverly-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 2007HailWaverly-Golfball sized hailed reported to be falling 5 miles east of Beto Junction.
September 2005HailWaverly-Also falling over other parts of northeastern Coffey county.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindWaverly-Blew shingles off spotters roof.
July 2020HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2020HailWaverly-no account filed
August 2019HailWaverly-no account filed
April 2011HailWaverly-no account filed
April 2011HailWaverly-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudWaverly-no account filed
April 2008HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2008HailWaverly-no account filed
June 2005HailWaverly-no account filed
September 2005HailWaverly-no account filed
April 2003HailWaverly-no account filed
April 2003HailWaverly-no account filed
April 2003HailWaverly-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWaverly-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWaverly-no account filed
May 2001HailWaverly-no account filed
June 1999HailWaverly-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWaverly-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudWaverly-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWaverly-no account filed
March 1996HailWaverly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coffey 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
Agricola4.0 miles17
Beto Junction4.8 miles18
Halls Summit5.0 miles16
Sharpe9.0 miles16
New Strawn11.7 miles16
Ottumwa13.1 miles16
Lebo13.3 miles17
Burlington15.6 miles17

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 WaverlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666573The 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.