Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Chapman, KS

Chapman is a city in eastern Dickinson County, Kansas, sitting on the north bank of the Smoky Hill River between Abilene and Junction City.

The first settlement at Chapman was made in 1868, the same year Jackman's Mill was built on Chapman Creek a little northeast of the present town.

James Streeter and S. M. Strickler laid out the town in 1871, and it took its name from Chapman Creek.

Chapman's first post office was established on July 30, 1866, under the name Chapman's Creek, and the town's name was shortened to Chapman on May 16, 1872.

Chapman was incorporated in 1910, when it was a station on the Union Pacific Railroad and the most important shipping point between Abilene and Junction City, with a population of 781.

On the evening of June 11, 2008, a half-mile-wide tornado rated EF3 swept through the center of Chapman, destroying about 75 percent of the town's homes, killing one person, critically injuring three others and displacing at least 200 residents.

The 2008 tornado extensively damaged Chapman's school buildings and two churches, and in January 2009 the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition featured the town's rebuilding effort.

On May 25, 2016, another large tornado tore through the countryside just southwest of Chapman while the town was under a rare tornado emergency, damaging rural homes but sparing Chapman itself.

As of the 2020 census, Chapman had a population of 1,377, just below its all-time peak of 1,393 recorded in 2010.

Chapman covers just 0.86 square miles, all of it land.