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Wellsville, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66092. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle. 1,953 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Wellsville within Franklin County

On record in Wellsville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wellsville grew from 1,857 to 1,953 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
20101,857
20201,953+96 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

53 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Wellsville between 2015 and 2020, burning about 577 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 August 2015Arson/incendiarism15 acresKansas Forest Service284
8 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service293
28 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2090121
25 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresFranklin County273
2 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFranklin County246
11 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFranklin County261
10 June 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service244
4 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service153

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellsville in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWellsville$3,000,000Trees were uprooted. There was damage to the high school roof. Numerous power lines down over a large swath of Wellsville.
May 1995HailWellsville$100,000Large hail accompanied by high winds caused widespread damage in and north of Wellsville. This supercell storm had originated in central Kansas and produced extensive and widespread, mainly straightline/ downburst wind damage, as it moved east across the region, finally exiting the state around 2200 CST.
June 1999LightningWellsville$10,000An unusual event occurred in Wellsville when lightning that struck a house a few days earlier and ignited a smoldering fire that burst into flames the evening of the 2nd. Considerable damage was done to the house, mainly the attic portion.
April 1995HailWellsville$8,000Large hail propelled by winds estimated over 70 mph caused damage to a barn and outbuildings. Heavy rains of three to five inches, most of it occurring in about one hour, caused isolated temporary flooding.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWellsville$5,000Strong winds blew tree limbs down on a transformer doing considerable damage.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindWellsville$3,000Strong winds lifted a barn off its foundation and did some damage to the structure.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWellsville-Power pole is down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWellsville-Trained spotter estimated winds gusts between 60 and 70 mph.
July 2023HailWellsville-Quarter sized hail reported.
September 2023HailWellsville-Hen egg sized hail reported.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWellsville-Large tree branches were reported down.
March 2017HailWellsville-Approximately half dollar size hail at the Wellsville Elementary.
August 2017Flash FloodWellsville-Flash flooding of several streets in Wellsville.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWellsville-Trees and power lines down.
June 2000Flash FloodWellsville-Heavy rains of two to 5 inches caused some flooding for a time in Wellsville.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed
August 2008HailWellsville-no account filed
February 2007Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed
September 2006HailWellsville-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed
May 2003HailWellsville-no account filed
March 2002HailWellsville-no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed
April 2002HailWellsville-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed
April 2001HailWellsville-no account filed
April 2001HailWellsville-no account filed
April 2000HailWellsville-no account filed
June 2000HailWellsville-no account filed
September 2000HailWellsville-no account filed
September 2000HailWellsville-no account filed
September 2000HailWellsville-no account filed
June 1998HailWellsville-no account filed
June 1996HailWellsville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Le Loup4.4 miles17
Norwood8.8 miles17
Peoria9.9 miles17
Imes10.8 miles17
Ottawa Junction11.5 miles18
Rantoul11.8 miles17
Ottawa12.1 miles19
Centropolis14.2 miles18

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 WellsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1022936The 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 479383. 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.