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Greensburg
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city in and county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Kiowa
- Named after
- D. R. Green
- Mayor
- Matt Christenson
- Total
- 1.79 sq mi (4.63 km )
- Land
- 1.79 sq mi (4.63 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 2,234 ft (681 m)
- Density
- 410/sq mi (160/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 20-28675
- Website
- greensburgks.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Greensburg
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kiowa County
- Population
- 740
- Area
- 3.840658
- Elevation
- 681
- Capital of
- Kiowa County
- Official website
- www.greensburgks.org
- Image
- Greensburg kansas watertower 2009.jpg
- Households
- 371
- Dialing code
- 620
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- Commons category
- Greensburg, Kansas
- postal code
- 67054
- inception
- 1885-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 27489
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Greensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the city was 740. It is home to the world's largest hand-dug well.
On the evening of May 4, 2007, Greensburg was devastated by an EF5 tornado that damaged 95 percent of the city, with 112 houses in the city sustaining EF4+ level damage. The tornado, which was 1.7 miles wide when entering Greensburg, killed eleven people between the ages of 46 and 84. The community had a population of 2,000 people in the late 1990s, and 1,400 people before the tornado leveled the city. By 2010, over half of Greensburg's population before the tornado had moved away from the city. The new hospital, city hall, and school have all been built to the highest certification level issued by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greensburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.