Ford County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Highest Potential
Air pollution and air quality trends
(lower is better)
AQI
PM10
Air Quality Index (AQI) level in 2010 was 17.6. This is significantly better than average.
Particulate Matter (PM10) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 19.0. This is about average. Closest monitor was 15.3 miles away from the city center.
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 3.2%
(2.7% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 21.7% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 0.0% for two or more races residents)
Average household size:
| This city: |  2.7 people | | Kansas: |  2.5 people |
| This city: | 68.8% | | Whole state: | 67.6% |
| This city: | 2.7% | | Whole state: | 4.1% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Spearville, KS
18 people in nursing homes
Spearville compared to Kansas state average:
- Median house value significantly below state average.
- Unemployed percentage significantly below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Renting percentage significantly below state average.
- House age above state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher below state average.
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Banks with branches in Spearville (2011 data):
- The First National Bank of Spearville: The First National Bank Of Spearvill at 401 North Main St, branch established on 02/18/1908. Info updated 06/01/2010: Bank assets: $0.3 mil, Deposits: $2.5 mil, local headquarters, positive income, Agricultural Specialization, 1 total offices, Holding Company: Spearville Bancshares, Inc.
- Ford County State Bank: at 322 N Main St, branch established on 01/01/1902. Info updated 11/03/2006: Bank assets: $3.0 mil, Deposits: $2.5 mil, local headquarters, positive income, Agricultural Specialization, 1 total offices
Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Ford County Kansas:
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Religion statistics for Spearville:
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 47.71%
| Here | | 47.7% |
| USA | | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Catholic Church | Christian Churches and Churches of Christ | United Methodist Church | Southern Baptist Convention | Church of the Nazarene |
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| Adherents | 44.9% | 16.2% | 12.4% | 4.4% | 3.5% |
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| Congregations | 9.7% | 12.9% | 9.7% | 6.5% | 3.2% |
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| Name | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Assemblies of God | Salvation Army | Churches of Christ | Other |
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| Adherents | 2.8% | 2.5% | 1.9% | 1.9% | 9.5% |
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| Congregations | 9.7% | 6.5% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 35.5% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center.
Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 5 | Ford County: | 1.51 / 10,000 pop. | | Kansas: | 1.96 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of supercenters and club stores: 1 | This county: | 0.30 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 0.20 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 1 | Ford County: | 0.30 / 10,000 pop. | | Kansas: | 0.51 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 15 | Ford County: | 4.53 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 3.84 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 23 | Here: | 6.95 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 7.33 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | This county: | 7.7% | | Kansas: | 8.1% |
Adult obesity rate: | Ford County: | 29.0% | | Kansas: | 27.9% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate: | This county: | 18.9% | | State: | 13.4% |
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $100 |
| Other Government Administration |
1 | $2,468 | $29,616 | 0 | $0 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
1 | $2,956 | $35,472 | 1 | $896 |
| Police - Other |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $150 |
| Firefighters |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $100 |
| Water Supply |
1 | $3,498 | $41,976 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
3 | $8,922 | $35,688 | 4 | $1,246 |
Spearville government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Solid Waste Management: $56,000 ($64.22)
Sewerage: $45,000 ($51.61)
All Other: $1,000 ($1.15)
- Current Operations - Gas Utilities: $298,000 ($341.74)
Regular Highways: $90,000 ($103.21)
Water Utilities: $72,000 ($82.57)
Financial Administration: $59,000 ($67.66)
Solid Waste Management: $52,000 ($59.63)
Sewerage: $37,000 ($42.43)
Police Protection: $35,000 ($40.14)
General - Other: $20,000 ($22.94)
Central Staff Services: $2,000 ($2.29)
Fire Protection: $1,000 ($1.15)
- General - Interest on Debt: $10,000 ($11.47)
- Local Intergovernmental - General Support: $67,000 ($76.83)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $265,000 ($303.90)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $225,000 ($258.03)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Water Utilities: $245,000 ($280.96)
Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $210,000 ($240.83)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Water Utilities: $20,000 ($22.94)
Other, NEC: $15,000 ($17.20)
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $33,000 ($37.84)
Interest Earnings: $28,000 ($32.11)
Special Assessments: $18,000 ($20.64)
- Other Capital Outlay - General - Other: $48,000 ($55.05)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $449,000 ($514.91)
- Revenue - Gas Utilities: $336,000 ($385.32)
Water Utilities: $138,000 ($158.26)
- State Intergovernmental - Highways: $24,000 ($27.52)
General Support: $8,000 ($9.17)
- Tax - Property: $83,000 ($95.18)
Public Utilities: $12,000 ($13.76)
NEC: $2,000 ($2.29)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $99,000 ($113.53)
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $15,000 ($17.20)
5.71% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($29,993 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 5.71% | | Kansas average: | 7.39% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
8.71% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($30,047 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 8.71% | | Kansas average: | 7.67% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Spearville:
- KGNO (1370 AM; 5 kW; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: WAITT RADIO, INC.)
- KGYN (1210 AM; 50 kW; GUYMON, OK; Owner: TELNS BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.)
- KDCC (1550 AM; 1 kW; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: DODGE CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE)
- KRVN (880 AM; 50 kW; LEXINGTON, NE; Owner: NEBRASKA RURAL RADIO ASSOCIATION)
- KRMG (740 AM; 50 kW; TULSA, OK; Owner: CXR HOLDINGS, INC.)
- KWLS (1290 AM; 5 kW; PRATT, KS; Owner: WAITT RADIO, INC.)
- KVGB (1590 AM; 5 kW; GREAT BEND, KS; Owner: EAGLE RADIO INC.)
- KLTT (670 AM; 50 kW; COMMERCE CITY, CO; Owner: KLZ RADIO, INC.)
- KOMA (1520 AM; 50 kW; OKLAHOMA CITY, OK; Owner: RENDA BROADCASTING CORP. OF NEVADA)
- KFAQ (1170 AM; 50 kW; TULSA, OK; Owner: JOURNAL BROADCAST CORPORATION)
- WHB (810 AM; 50 kW; KANSAS CITY, MO; Owner: UNION BROADCASTING, INC.)
- KOA (850 AM; 50 kW; DENVER, CO; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING OF COLORADO, INC.)
- KKZN (760 AM; 50 kW; THORNTON, CO; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING OF COLORADO, INC.)
Strongest FM radio stations in Spearville:
- KOLS (95.5 FM; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: WAITT RADIO, INC.)
- KZRD (93.9 FM; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: WAITT RADIO, INC.)
- K225AG (96.3 FM; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: KANZA SOCIETY, INC.)
- KKJQ (97.3 FM; GARDEN CITY, KS; Owner: KBUF PARTNERSHIP)
- KONQ (91.9 FM; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: DODGE CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE)
TV broadcast stations around Spearville:
- KSAS-LP (Channel 29; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- K09VS (Channel 9; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION)
- KBSD-TV (Channel 6; ENSIGN, KS; Owner: MEDIA GENERAL BROADCASTING OF SO. CAROLINA HOLDINGS, INC.)
- KDCK (Channel 21; DODGE CITY, KS; Owner: SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP.)
Spearville fatal accident list:
Nov 7, 1986 11:25 AM, R001, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 1, Fatalities: 1, Drunken drivers: 1
Jan 1, 1981 01:53 AM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 4, Fatalities: 1
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 1 - Ne 1/4 Sec 26 T25s R23w 2.75 Mi W (Lat: 37.854472 Lon: -99.808750), Structure height: 43 m, Call Sign: WPFC492
Assigned Frequencies: 160.425 MHz
Grant Date: 07/07/2004, Expiration Date: 07/07/2014
Registrant: The Bn&sf Rwy Co, 4515 Kansas Ave, Kansas City, KS 66106, Phone: (913) 551-4568, Fax: (913) 551-4053, Email:
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 5 - 103A SPEARVILLE, Int Of 127 Rd & Foothill St (Lat: 37.840556 Lon: -99.735667), Structure height: 39.6 m, Call Sign: WPOU686
Assigned Frequencies: 6197.24 MHz, 6345.49 MHz, 6197.24 MHz, 6345.49 MHz, 6286.19 MHz, 6286.19 MHz, 6226.89 MHz, 6226.89 MHz
Grant Date: 07/15/1999, Expiration Date: 07/15/2009, Cancellation Date: 09/19/2009, Certifier: Mary Mcdermott
Registrant: Pathnet, Inc., 1661 Gateway Blvd., Richardson, TX 75080, Phone: (972) 690-9933, Fax: (972) 231-0728, Email:
- SPEARVILLE 103A, Intersection Of 127 Rd & Foothill Street (Lat: 37.840583 Lon: -99.735694), Type: Tower, Structure height: 39.6 m, Call Sign: WPVY786, Licensee ID: L00896575
Assigned Frequencies: 6197.24 MHz, 6197.24 MHz, 6226.89 MHz, 6226.89 MHz, 6286.19 MHz, 6286.19 MHz, 6345.49 MHz, 6345.49 MHz
Grant Date: 09/09/2002, Expiration Date: 09/09/2012, Certifier: Kenneth D Anderson
Registrant: Great Western Communications, LLC - STATION, 1 Mi E Of (Lat: 37.841111 Lon: -99.734833), Overall height: 39.6 m, Call Sign: KNR85
Assigned Frequencies: 6665.00 MHz, 6605.00 MHz
Grant Date: 10/14/1997, Expiration Date: 12/17/2002, Cancellation Date: 08/05/1999
Registrant: Phone: (630) 691-3854 - Spearville, Cnr Lance & 123 Rds - 2.9mi W Of (Lat: 37.854444 Lon: -99.808722), Type: Tower, Structure height: 42.7 m, Overall height: 48.7 m, Call Sign: WHC480
Assigned Frequencies: 6615.00 MHz, 6655.00 MHz
Grant Date: 12/05/2001, Expiration Date: 12/17/2011
Registrant: Bnsf Railway Co., 4515 Kansas Ave, Kansas City, KS 66106, Phone: (913) 551-4958, Fax: (913) 551-4053, Email:
- SPEARVILLE, 1 Mi N Of (Lat: 37.863056 Lon: -99.755000), Type: Tower, Structure height: 24.2 m, Overall height: 24.5 m, Call Sign: WHJ255
Assigned Frequencies: 6625.62 MHz
Grant Date: 05/17/2008, Expiration Date: 07/29/2018, Certifier: L. Christian Hauck
Registrant: Utc Spectrum Services, 200 N Glebe Rd, Suite 1000, Arlington, VA 22203, Phone: (703) 558-2214, Fax: (703) 558-0523, Email:
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 2 - Call Sign: WB0WPC, Licensee ID: L00254869
Grant Date: 03/20/2007, Expiration Date: 01/27/2017, Certifier: Rebecca L Minor
Registrant: Rebecca L Minor, 12375 Lariat Rd, Spearville, KS 67876 - Call Sign: WB0WRA, Licensee ID: L00254868
Grant Date: 03/20/2007, Expiration Date: 01/27/2017, Certifier: Jerry K Minor
Registrant: Jerry K Minor, 12375 Lariat Rd, Spearville, KS 67876
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
| Most common first names in Spearville, KS among deceased individuals |
| Name | Count | Lived (average) |
|---|
| William | 16 | 79.7 years |
| Henry | 15 | 80.3 years |
| John | 14 | 80.4 years |
| Mary | 13 | 86.6 years |
| Anna | 12 | 90.3 years |
| Edward | 11 | 80.2 years |
| Joseph | 8 | 80.5 years |
| Albert | 7 | 79.6 years |
| Clara | 7 | 85.5 years |
| George | 6 | 77.3 years |
| Most common last names in Spearville, KS among deceased individuals |
| Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
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| Hornung | 17 | 73.6 years |
| Shean | 10 | 80.2 years |
| Klenke | 10 | 85.9 years |
| Schuette | 9 | 75.3 years |
| Stein | 9 | 83.6 years |
| Torline | 8 | 82.1 years |
| Konda | 7 | 77.7 years |
| Mages | 7 | 79.8 years |
| Knoeber | 6 | 85.0 years |
| Imel | 6 | 84.9 years |
Spearville on our top lists:
- #7 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the highest average wind speeds"
- #95 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of males working in industry: Apparel, piece goods, and notions merchant wholesalers"
- #101 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of males working in industry: Metal and mineral, except petroleum, merchant wholesalers"
- #93 (67876) on the list of "Top 101 zip codes with the largest percentage of Alsatian first ancestries"
- #45 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest number of births per 1000 residents 2000-2003"
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