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.
Population over time
2 figuresWoodston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 136 | |
| 2020 | 94 | -42 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Plainville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Woodston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Plainville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
32 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Hail | Woodston | $250,000 | Rooks County Emergency Manager relayed information he saw on a Facebook post of hail over two inches in diameter south of Woodston. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Woodston | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | $60,000 | Wind 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 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Woodston | $60,000 | A 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Woodston | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Woodston | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Woodston | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | $15,000 | Wind 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | $15,000 | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Woodston | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | $5,000 | Winds accompanied by dime size hail. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | $2,000 | A tree was blown down on 30 Road between E and F Roads. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Woodston | $2,000 | Heavy rain in the area caused the South Fork of the Solomon River to flood for a short time near Woodston. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | - | A wind gust of 68 MPH was measured by a trained spotter located three miles east-northeast of Woodston. |
| June 2014 | Heavy Rain | Woodston | - | A storm total rainfall amount of 3.50 inches was reported by a home rain gauge. |
| April 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Woodston | - | A brief tornado touchdown was observed by a storm chaser. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | - | Tree branches one to two inches in diameter broken off. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Woodston | - | Hail between one inch and golf ball-size were reported. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Woodston | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Woodston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockton | 9.1 miles | 14 | |
| Laton | 11.8 miles | 12 | |
| Webster (historical) | 18.4 miles | 13 | |
| Codell | 18.6 miles | 12 | |
| Plainville | 18.6 miles | 12 | |
| Zurich | 23.7 miles | 12 | |
| Damar | 27.5 miles | 13 | |
| Palco | 28.5 miles | 13 |
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 Woodston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q582154 | 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 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.




