White City, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 5. It lies in ZIP code area 66872. The Survey maps it on the White City quadrangle. 447 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.
On record in White City
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 1 record
Jenkins Buildinglisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresWhite City fell from 618 to 447 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 | 618 | |
| 2020 | 447 | -171 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Parkerville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Parkerville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS White City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of White City between 2015 and 2020, burning about 807 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018034 |
| 23 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018033 |
| 16 June 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 9 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018026 |
| 11 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018027 |
| 4 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018025 |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018022 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White City in 40 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 26 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 1995 | Hail | White City | $200,000 | Hail near the size of softballs did extensive damage to the White City school building. Skylights and windows were blown out with severe damage to the roof and nearby buildings and vehicles. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | White City | $70,000 | Fast flowing water closed Skiddy road. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | White City | $50,000 | Water reported over the road at K4 and McKenzie in White City. Road was considered impassable by sheriff's dept. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | White City | $50,000 | Fast flowing water over K-4 highway. |
| May 1995 | Hail | White City | $45,000 | Large hail and high winds combined to damage windows, siding and vehicles. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | $40,000 | Strong winds destroyed the roof and two walls of an old theater. Also, several storage sheds were destroyed. Numerous large branches were broken and trees up to 10 inches in diameter were uprooted. A small metal storage shed was wrapped around a utility pole. Property damage from the wind was widespread. The best indicator of the strength of the wind was the derailment of a railroad train at White City. Six of 58 cars were de-railed with five cars blown on their sides. Fortunately, the train crew was uninjured. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | White City | $1,000 | Debris and mud flowing over the intersection of highways K4 and K149 from Level Creek. |
| May 2021 | Flash Flood | White City | - | Skiddy Rd at G Rd is flooded. |
| May 2021 | Hail | White City | - | Half dollar size hail and 50-60 mph wind gust. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | - | Roofs peeled off building, side of metal building got blown out. |
| March 2020 | Hail | White City | - | Observer noted quarter size hail with a few stones larger up to golf ball size. |
| October 2013 | Hail | White City | - | Relayed from social media. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | - | Spotter estimated wind speeds of 65 mph. |
| October 2007 | Hail | White City | - | Nickel sized hail was reported on HWY 77 near the Geary/Morris county line. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | - | 4 inch limbs down. |
| June 2024 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F0) | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | White City | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | White City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkerville | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Skiddy | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Latimer | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Dwight | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Downing (historical) | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kelso | 9.7 miles | 15 | |
| Delavan | 10.5 miles | 15 | |
| Wilsey | 11.5 miles | 15 |
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 White City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673343 | 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 476888. 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.





