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Williamsburg, Kansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Williamsburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66095. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Williamsburg quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Williamsburg within Franklin County

On record in Williamsburg

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

Williamsburg fell from 397 to 390 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
2010397
2020390-7 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

28 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Williamsburg between 2015 and 2018, burning about 450 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism2

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
6 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service66
15 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFranklin County82
15 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFranklin County81
7 March 2015Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service44
5 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service25
31 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service38
2 March 2017Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFranklin County41
15 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKansas Forest Service69

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williamsburg in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
September 2009Flash FloodWilliamsburg$5,000Slow moving thunderstorms dumped 3 to 4 inches of rain across the area. Old highway 50 and N Dane Road were flooded and closed with 6 inches of flowing water reported in the town of Williamsburg due to the heavy rains.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-Measured from a personal weather station.
June 2024HailWilliamsburg-An Mping report.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-Also had hail of unknown size.
May 2020HailWilliamsburg-Quarter hail reported.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-Tree branches were reported down.
August 2018HailWilliamsburg-Quarter size hail reported.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-Semi truck was blown over on interstate 35 near Williamsburg.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Williamsburg-A storm chaser witnessed a brief tornado touchdown in a field. The tornado was on the ground for approximately one minute. No damage occurred. EF0 rating.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-The northern end of the storm moved through Franklin county and caused only minor tree damage. Power was knocked out in the city of Princeton as a result of the storm.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-The same spotter that reported one inch hail also noted that strong winds knocked down an eight inch diameter tree branch in her yard.
June 2008HailWilliamsburg-Hail from the size of quarters to the size of baseballs was reported by the EM and trained spotters.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-Strong winds broke off 2 inch diameter limbs.
May 2008HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
July 2008HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
February 2007HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
September 2005HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
September 2005HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
April 2003HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
July 2002HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-no account filed
May 2000HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-no account filed
June 1998HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-no account filed
June 1998HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
May 1997HailWilliamsburg-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWilliamsburg-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
Silkville2.4 miles18
Ransomville2.8 miles17
Homewood5.2 miles17
Pomona8.9 miles17
Princeton10.2 miles17
Richter10.2 miles17
B N Junction11.8 miles19
Richmond12.5 miles17

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 WilliamsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2664158The 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 477577. 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.