Greensburg, Kansas Greensburg, Kansas Location inside Kiowa County and Kansas Location inside Kiowa County and Kansas Greensburg is a town/city in, and the governmental center of county of, Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 777. In the evening of May 4, 2007, Greensburg was devastated by an EF5 tornado that traveled quickly through the area, leveling at least 95 percent of the town/city and killing eleven citizens between the ages of 46 and 84. Greensburg today stands as a model "green town", often described as the greenest in America.
The first settlement was made at Greensburg in 1885. Greensburg was titled for D.
City center, twelve days after the tornado hit (2007) CDT on May 4, 2007, amid a deadly tornado outbreak, Greensburg was hit by an EF5 tornado.
The tornado was estimated to be 1.7 miles (2.7 km) in width wider than the town/city itself and traveled for nearly 22 miles (35 km).
This was the first tornado to be rated EF5 since the update of the Fujita scale and the first "5" classification since May 3, 1999, when an F5 tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma, as part of the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. Tornado sirens sounded in the town/city twenty minutes before the tornado struck, and a tornado emergency was issued, which undoubtedly saved many lives. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and President George W.
The tornado took 10 lives in Greensburg and two more in neighboring towns. While some stone was done, the populace by 2010 was about 50% of what it was in 2000, as the 2000 census found 1,574 residents, while only 777 were recorded in the 2010 census. After the tornado, the town/city council passed a resolution stating that all town/city buildings would be assembled to LEED - platinum standards, making it the first town/city in the country to do so.
Greensburg is stone as a "green" town, with the help of Greensburg Green - Town, a non-profit organization created to help the inhabitants learn about and implement the green living initiative. The city's power is supplied by ten 1.25 MW wind-turbines.
Greensburg is positioned at 37 36 16 N 99 17 37 W (37.604316, -99.293488). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.48 square miles (3.83 km2), all land. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Greensburg has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "CFA" on climate maps. As of the census of 2010, there were 777 citizens , 355 homeholds, and 212 families residing in the city.
There were 355 homeholds of which 24.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.2% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 40.3% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 45.2 years.
22% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.6% were from 25 to 44; 27.9% were from 45 to 64; and 22.3% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,574 citizens , 730 homeholds, and 453 families residing in the city. The populace density was 1,055.9 citizens per square mile (407.9/km2).
There were 730 homeholds out of which 23.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 53.3% were married couples living together, 6.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 37.9% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 20.5% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 26.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Greensburg is served by USD 422 Kiowa County Schools.
Greensburg schools were closed through school unification.
The Greensburg Rangers won the Kansas State High School boys class B basketball championship in 1948. The adjoining exhibition displayed a 1000-pound pallasite meteorite until the exhibition fell down around the meteorite amid a 2007 tornado that finished the city.
The Well was not destroyed, and the meteorite was found in the rubble of the exhibition and moved to a temporary home in Hays before Greensburg could reclaim it. As of January 2011 the meteorite is back in Greensburg on display in the new City Hall until the new Big Well Museum is built. On October 16, 2006, a related lesser meteorite measuring 154 pounds (70 kilograms) was dug up near Greensburg (5 miles (8.0 km)) and Haviland (4 miles (6.4 km)).
Several tv networks have drawn an interest in Greensburg as a subject for reality shows as a result of the Greensburg City Council's decision to make the town/city a "green" town.
A documentary on its ongoing standard , called Greensburg, aired on Planet Green, a sister network of Discovery Channel.
Another documentary, Earth 2100, drew consideration to Greensburg as "the green town" that was assembled after the devastating 2007 tornado.
The ABC film suggested a fictionalized, future Greensburg as a model showing how American suburbs can successfully implement green technology, and turn into a beacon for hope on a planet doomed to destruction from climate change and overpopulation.
Bush, flies over Greensburg after the destructive tornado.
Robinett Building, the only historic building in downtown Greensburg to survive the tornado.
Greensburg's arts center, constructed after the tornado to surroundingally stringent LEED Platinum standards.
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