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Webber, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66970. The Survey maps it on the Webber quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,673 feet above sea level.

Webber within Jewell County

Population over time

2 figures

Webber grew from 25 to 30 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
201025
202030+5 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Webber between 2015 and 2020, burning about 354 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
30 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2017Smoking1.0 acresJewell County201720
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service18
14 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service201504
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2020Recreation and ceremony15 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
11 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Service201604

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jewell County

Storms near this place

48 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webber in 48 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 25 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2015Tornado (EF2)Webber$1,250,000This tornado touched down west-northwest of Webber in Jewell County, KS, traveling northeast through the very northwest corner of Republic County, KS, before entering Nebraska near the town of Hardy in Nuckolls County. It continued traveling northeast into Thayer County, lifting northwest of Deshler. This tornado was rated an EF2, with an estimated peak wind speed of 122 MPH. EF2 damage was noted in both Jewell County, KS and Nuckolls County, NE.||Damage along this tornado path included numerous pivots overturned and snapped power poles. There was a large amount of tree damage noted. In addition, in Jewell County, grain bins and outbuildings were destroyed, and a home lost a portion of its roof.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWebber$50,000Irrigation pipes were moved and a irrigation pivot was tipped over.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWebber$50,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWebber$45,000A modular home located on 240 Road and Diamond Avenue just inside Jewell County south of Superior had most of its roof torn off, with a portion of one wall blown approximately 30 yards away. A couple of power poles were snapped in this area.
April 2005HailWebber$25,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWebber$25,000no account filed
September 2003HailWebber$25,000no account filed
June 2008HailWebber$20,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWebber$15,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in large broken tree limbs in Webber.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWebber$10,000no account filed
June 2007HailWebber$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailWebber$2,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWebber-A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located near Lovewell Reservoir.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWebber-A wind gust of 58 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 5 miles east-northeast of Webber.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWebber-A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles east-northeast of Webber.
June 2019HailWebber-Quarter to half dollar size hail, along with estimated 65 MPH winds that occurred earlier .
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWebber-Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in a tipped irrigation pivot.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWebber-Wind gusts were estimated to around 65 MPH.
May 2015Heavy RainWebber-A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 7.92 inches was reported.
June 2012HailWebber-Pea to quarter size hail fell. Wind was only about 10 to 15 mph at the time.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindWebber-Wind gust was measured from a home weather station.
May 2010HailWebber-Hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWebber-Wind gusts estimated at 65 mph.
June 2009HailWebber-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported.
April 2023HailWebber-no account filed
August 2020HailWebber-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWebber-no account filed
June 2019HailWebber-no account filed
June 2019HailWebber-no account filed
April 2016HailWebber-no account filed
May 2016HailWebber-no account filed
May 2015HailWebber-no account filed
June 2011HailWebber-no account filed
May 2010HailWebber-no account filed
June 2007Funnel CloudWebber-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWebber-no account filed
April 2005HailWebber-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWebber-no account filed
May 2004HailWebber-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWebber-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWebber-no account filed
August 2004HailWebber-no account filed
June 2004HailWebber-no account filed
May 2002HailWebber-no account filed
August 2002HailWebber-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindWebber-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindWebber-no account filed
September 2001HailWebber-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jewell 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
Lovewell5.6 miles13
Montrose10.8 miles13
Formoso10.9 miles13
Mankato13.8 miles13
Burr Oak15.1 miles13
Wesley Center15.5 miles13
Northbranch18.0 miles13
Otego18.1 miles13

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 WebberAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2235961The 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 471893. 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.