Wilsey, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 9. It lies in ZIP code area 66873. The Survey maps it on the Wilsey quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,506 feet above sea level.
On record in Wilsey
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 2 records
Four Mile Creek Latticelisted 1990- Diamond Springlisted 1976
Population over time
2 figuresWilsey fell from 153 to 139 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 | 153 | |
| 2020 | 139 | -14 (-9%) |
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
- 1972 USGS Wilsey quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Council Grove quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wilsey between 2009 and 2018, burning about 327 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Kansas Counties | Q ROAD FIRE COMPLEX |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Morris County | 2017006 |
| 2 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 118 |
| 18 February 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Morris County | 2017001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
45 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilsey in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 31 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Wilsey | $50,000 | Five inches of water flowing over the road near 1900 road and 56 highway. 1900 road underwater for about a half mile south of this area. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wilsey | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | $1,000 | A law enforcement officer reported a power line down near Wilsey. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Wilsey | - | Nickel size hail report. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Wilsey | - | Flash flooding was reported on 1400 Road and V Avenue making the roads impassible. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | Power lines and tree limbs reported down in the town of Wilsey. Power was out to many of the town's residents. |
| May 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Wilsey | - | Numerous reports of this funnel cloud. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | Storm damage at a homestead included a grain bin, machine shed, and metal building, as well as numerous large tree limbs and downed power lines. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Wilsey | - | The tornado touched down 4 miles south of Wilsey and moved north for 6 miles, dissipating 2 miles northwest of Wilsey. A trained spotter reported debris with the tornado as it passed near his house just northwest of Wilsey, however no damage was reported from the F0 tornado. The parent thunderstorm was a mini-supercell. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Wilsey | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. A low water crossing near Wilsey was flooded. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| February 2012 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilsey | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Wilsey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helmick | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Diamond Springs | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Delavan | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kelso | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Parkerville | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Downing (historical) | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Council Grove | 9.9 miles | 16 | |
| Burdick | 10.3 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 Wilsey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q945345 | 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 477005. 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.





