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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.

Wilsey within Morris County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Wilsey 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.

YearPeople Change
2010153
2020139-14 (-9%)

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

4 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresKansas CountiesQ ROAD FIRE COMPLEX
11 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresMorris County2017006
2 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service118
18 February 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMorris County2017001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morris County

Storms near this place

45 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Flash FloodWilsey$50,000Five 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 1998HailWilsey$2,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWilsey$1,000A law enforcement officer reported a power line down near Wilsey.
May 2024HailWilsey-Nickel size hail report.
June 2010Flash FloodWilsey-Flash flooding was reported on 1400 Road and V Avenue making the roads impassible.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWilsey-Power lines and tree limbs reported down in the town of Wilsey. Power was out to many of the town's residents.
May 2007Funnel CloudWilsey-Numerous reports of this funnel cloud.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWilsey-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 2005Tornado (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 2004Flash FloodWilsey-Heavy rain produced flash flooding for a time. A low water crossing near Wilsey was flooded.
May 2017HailWilsey-no account filed
August 2013HailWilsey-no account filed
February 2012HailWilsey-no account filed
March 2009HailWilsey-no account filed
March 2009HailWilsey-no account filed
April 2008HailWilsey-no account filed
May 2007HailWilsey-no account filed
April 2005HailWilsey-no account filed
April 2005HailWilsey-no account filed
April 2005HailWilsey-no account filed
June 2005HailWilsey-no account filed
August 2005HailWilsey-no account filed
August 2005HailWilsey-no account filed
November 2005HailWilsey-no account filed
August 2003HailWilsey-no account filed
August 2003HailWilsey-no account filed
August 2003HailWilsey-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindWilsey-no account filed
June 2002HailWilsey-no account filed
June 2002HailWilsey-no account filed
June 2002HailWilsey-no account filed
May 2002HailWilsey-no account filed
April 2001HailWilsey-no account filed
September 2000HailWilsey-no account filed
September 2000HailWilsey-no account filed
May 1999HailWilsey-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWilsey-no account filed
May 1999HailWilsey-no account filed
June 1998HailWilsey-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWilsey-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWilsey-no account filed
August 1998HailWilsey-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindWilsey-no account filed
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWilsey-no account filed
May 1996HailWilsey-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
Helmick4.0 miles15
Diamond Springs6.5 miles15
Delavan7.4 miles15
Kelso8.8 miles15
Parkerville8.8 miles15
Downing (historical)9.0 miles15
Council Grove9.9 miles16
Burdick10.3 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 WilseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q945345The 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.