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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.

White City within Morris County

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

Population over time

2 figures

White 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.

YearPeople Change
2010618
2020447-171 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

23 since 2015

Regional 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
25 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use30 acresKansas Forest Service2018034
23 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service2018033
16 June 2020Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
9 May 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018026
11 May 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018027
4 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018025
19 April 2018Debris and open burning30 acresKansas Forest Service2018022

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Storms near this place

40 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995HailWhite City$200,000Hail 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 2005Flash FloodWhite City$70,000Fast flowing water closed Skiddy road.
May 2007Flash FloodWhite City$50,000Water reported over the road at K4 and McKenzie in White City. Road was considered impassable by sheriff's dept.
August 2005Flash FloodWhite City$50,000Fast flowing water over K-4 highway.
May 1995HailWhite City$45,000Large hail and high winds combined to damage windows, siding and vehicles.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWhite City$40,000Strong 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 1997Thunderstorm WindWhite City$2,000no account filed
June 2009Flash FloodWhite City$1,000Debris and mud flowing over the intersection of highways K4 and K149 from Level Creek.
May 2021Flash FloodWhite City-Skiddy Rd at G Rd is flooded.
May 2021HailWhite City-Half dollar size hail and 50-60 mph wind gust.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindWhite City-Roofs peeled off building, side of metal building got blown out.
March 2020HailWhite City-Observer noted quarter size hail with a few stones larger up to golf ball size.
October 2013HailWhite City-Relayed from social media.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWhite City-Spotter estimated wind speeds of 65 mph.
October 2007HailWhite City-Nickel sized hail was reported on HWY 77 near the Geary/Morris county line.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWhite City-4 inch limbs down.
June 2024HailWhite City-no account filed
June 2017HailWhite City-no account filed
April 2015HailWhite City-no account filed
April 2011HailWhite City-no account filed
April 2011HailWhite City-no account filed
September 2010HailWhite City-no account filed
March 2009HailWhite City-no account filed
June 2008HailWhite City-no account filed
March 2006HailWhite City-no account filed
April 2006HailWhite City-no account filed
April 2005HailWhite City-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWhite City-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWhite City-no account filed
April 2002HailWhite City-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWhite City-no account filed
April 2001HailWhite City-no account filed
April 2001HailWhite City-no account filed
July 2001HailWhite City-no account filed
July 2000HailWhite City-no account filed
May 1999HailWhite City-no account filed
August 1997HailWhite City-no account filed
October 1997Tornado (F0)White City-no account filed
April 1995HailWhite City-no account filed
April 1995HailWhite City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morris 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
Parkerville4.5 miles15
Skiddy5.9 miles16
Latimer7.0 miles15
Dwight8.3 miles15
Downing (historical)9.4 miles15
Kelso9.7 miles15
Delavan10.5 miles15
Wilsey11.5 miles15

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673343The 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.