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.
Population over time
2 figuresWebber 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | |
| 2020 | 30 | +5 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Mankato quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Webber quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Smith Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Jewell County | 201720 |
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 18 |
| 14 April 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201504 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 3 March 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 11 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201604 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
48 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF2) | Webber | $1,250,000 | This 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | $50,000 | Irrigation pipes were moved and a irrigation pivot was tipped over. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | $45,000 | A 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 2005 | Hail | Webber | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Webber | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Webber | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | $15,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in large broken tree limbs in Webber. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Webber | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Webber | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located near Lovewell Reservoir. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 5 miles east-northeast of Webber. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | A wind gust of 62 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles east-northeast of Webber. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Webber | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail, along with estimated 65 MPH winds that occurred earlier . |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in a tipped irrigation pivot. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | Wind gusts were estimated to around 65 MPH. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Webber | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 7.92 inches was reported. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Webber | - | Pea to quarter size hail fell. Wind was only about 10 to 15 mph at the time. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | Wind gust was measured from a home weather station. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Webber | - | Hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | Wind gusts estimated at 65 mph. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Webber | - | Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Webber | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Webber | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webber | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Webber | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lovewell | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Montrose | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Formoso | 10.9 miles | 13 | |
| Mankato | 13.8 miles | 13 | |
| Burr Oak | 15.1 miles | 13 | |
| Wesley Center | 15.5 miles | 13 | |
| Northbranch | 18.0 miles | 13 | |
| Otego | 18.1 miles | 13 |
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 Webber | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2235961 | 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 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.




