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Wilroads Gardens, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Enterprise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67801. The Survey maps it on the Fort Dodge quadrangle. 639 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,441 feet above sea level.

Wilroads Gardens within Ford County

On record in Wilroads Gardens

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Wilroads Gardens grew from 609 to 639 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
2010609
2020639+30 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

69 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Wilroads Gardens between 2015 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresFord County1170287
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFord County1170285
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1150150
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1150161
4 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreFord County1170257
3 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFord County1170256
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFord County1067

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ford County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilroads Gardens in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2009HailWilroads Gardens1 hurtA male on a motorcycle was injured by the large hail and was completely bruised. He said he would have been killed without having a helmet.
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Wilroads Gardens$150,000This tornado struck two pivot irrigation sprinklers and and also destroyed a shed.
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Wilroads Gardens$65,000This tornado overturned a pivot irrigation sprinkler and dissipated as another larger tornado was forming.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWilroads Gardens-Several 14-to-16-inch tree limbs were blown down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWilroads Gardens-An Emergency Manager reported a tree had blown down onto a house and cars. They also reported large tree limbs being blown down and power poles downed.
October 2018Heavy RainWilroads Gardens-Rainfall for the period was 4.0 inches.
June 2017Heavy RainWilroads Gardens-Rainfall of 4.70 was observed.
May 2017HailWilroads Gardens-no account filed
April 2012HailWilroads Gardens-no account filed
May 2008HailWilroads Gardens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ford 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
Fort Dodge0.5 miles14
Wilroads2.6 miles14
Happy Homes Park2.7 miles14
Wright4.5 miles13
South Dodge4.8 miles14
Dodge City4.9 miles14
Sears9.5 miles14
Ford11.3 miles14

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 Wilroads GardensAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6167892The 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 473893. 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.