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Woodston, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 1. It lies in ZIP code area 67675. The Survey maps it on the Woodston quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,713 feet above sea level.

Woodston within Rooks County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodston fell from 136 to 94 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
2010136
202094-42 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodston in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 17 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
June 2023HailWoodston$250,000Rooks County Emergency Manager relayed information he saw on a Facebook post of hail over two inches in diameter south of Woodston.
July 2004HailWoodston$100,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindWoodston$100,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWoodston$60,000Wind gusts estimated near 70 mph damaged around 40 power poles, resulting in the loss of power in town, and blew 15 to 20 hay bales across a road.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Woodston$60,000A supercell storm produced a brief tornado in the town of Woodston. Eye witness accounts suggest this tornado skipped through town on its short path. The most significant damage was done to a brick building and a house along Main Street. This damage was rated as EF 1 with winds speeds of 85 to 90 mph.
June 2010Flash FloodWoodston$30,000no account filed
May 2012HailWoodston$25,000no account filed
July 2008HailWoodston$25,000no account filed
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodston$15,000Wind gusts were estimated from a report of downed tree limbs affecting a road north of town as well as the measured gusts from upstream.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindWoodston$15,000no account filed
July 2007Flash FloodWoodston$10,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodston$5,000Winds accompanied by dime size hail.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWoodston$2,000A tree was blown down on 30 Road between E and F Roads.
June 2011FloodWoodston$2,000Heavy rain in the area caused the South Fork of the Solomon River to flood for a short time near Woodston.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodston-A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a trained spotter located three miles east-northeast of Woodston.
June 2014Heavy RainWoodston-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.50 inches was reported by a home rain gauge.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Woodston-A brief tornado touchdown was observed by a storm chaser.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWoodston-Tree branches one to two inches in diameter broken off.
May 1993HailWoodston-Hail between one inch and golf ball-size were reported.
September 2015HailWoodston-no account filed
September 2015HailWoodston-no account filed
June 2014HailWoodston-no account filed
June 2010HailWoodston-no account filed
June 2010HailWoodston-no account filed
June 2010HailWoodston-no account filed
October 2007HailWoodston-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodston-no account filed
August 2003HailWoodston-no account filed
June 2002HailWoodston-no account filed
April 2001HailWoodston-no account filed
June 1999HailWoodston-no account filed
June 1998HailWoodston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rooks 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
Stockton9.1 miles14
Laton11.8 miles12
Webster (historical)18.4 miles13
Codell18.6 miles12
Plainville18.6 miles12
Zurich23.7 miles12
Damar27.5 miles13
Palco28.5 miles13

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 WoodstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q582154The 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 472253. 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.

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.