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.
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
Silkvillelisted 1972
Population over time
2 figuresWilliamsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 397 | |
| 2020 | 390 | -7 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1885 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 66 |
| 15 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Franklin County | 82 |
| 15 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Franklin County | 81 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 44 |
| 5 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 25 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 38 |
| 2 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Franklin County | 41 |
| 15 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 69 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Williamsburg | $5,000 | Slow 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 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | Measured from a personal weather station. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | An Mping report. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | Also had hail of unknown size. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | Quarter hail reported. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | Tree branches were reported down. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | Quarter size hail reported. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | Semi truck was blown over on interstate 35 near Williamsburg. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | Hail from the size of quarters to the size of baseballs was reported by the EM and trained spotters. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | Strong winds broke off 2 inch diameter limbs. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Williamsburg | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silkville | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Ransomville | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Homewood | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Pomona | 8.9 miles | 17 | |
| Princeton | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| Richter | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| B N Junction | 11.8 miles | 19 | |
| Richmond | 12.5 miles | 17 |
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 Williamsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2664158 | 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 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.








