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Admire, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ivy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66830. The Survey maps it on the Admire quadrangle. 130 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,237 feet above sea level.

Admire within Lyon County

Population over time

2 figures

Admire fell from 156 to 130 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.

YearPeople Change
2010156
2020130-26 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Admire between 2015 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Service015-038
24 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
27 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKansas Forest Service018-047
5 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLyon County017-045
8 April 2015Debris and open burning50 acresKansas Forest Service1500032
15 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKansas Forest Service015-023
22 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0021
21 March 2015Debris and open burning50 acresKansas Forest Service15-0002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Admire in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 36 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2004Flash FloodAdmire$935,000Thunderstorms produced heavy rains totaling 3 to 6 inches the morning of the 24th with flash flooding the result. Numerous rural roads and bridges were washed out or badly damaged. Damage totals were over 900 thousand dollars.
June 2005Flash FloodAdmire$200,000A local bridge was closed and at least 6 inches of fast flowing water reported across junction of k-99 and US 56 junction.
June 2005Flash FloodAdmire$25,000Around 6 inches of fast flowing water across K99 highway with several rural roads closed.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAdmire$1,000A roof was blown off of a machine shed. Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2002HailAdmire$500Large hail broke windows on a residence north of Admire.
March 2025HailAdmire-Half dollar size hail.
May 2024HailAdmire-Relayed by kvoe radio. Time estimated from radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAdmire-Numerous trees damaged with limbs as large as 12 to 18 inches diameter downed on homes, cars, and power lines. Time estimated from radar.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAdmire-Mesonet on KS 99 highway measured a 72 mph wind gust.
September 2016Flash FloodAdmire-Road closed near K-99 and 340 Road.
March 2012Flash FloodAdmire-Three to six inches of water over Highway 99, south of Admire.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAdmire-Powerlines knocked down behind spotter's home. Large tree limbs blwon down from a dead tree.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Admire-The public reported a tornado near milepost 140 of the Kansas Turnpike.
June 2008HailAdmire-Law enforcement officials and public reports of one and three quarter to three inch diameter hail were recieved at the NWS-Topeka. It was noted that some of the large stones were donut shaped. Vehicles left outside received extensive damage. Windshields were shattered along the path of this cell, and extensive vehical body damage was noted. Shingle damage was also noted at numerous homes and barns.
July 2005Heavy RainAdmire-Very heavy rain for a brief time caused an indirect injury on the Kansas Turnpike when a driver hydroplaned and struck a median wall.
September 2020HailAdmire-no account filed
May 2014HailAdmire-no account filed
May 2014HailAdmire-no account filed
April 2012HailAdmire-no account filed
May 2012HailAdmire-no account filed
March 2012HailAdmire-no account filed
March 2012HailAdmire-no account filed
March 2012HailAdmire-no account filed
April 2010HailAdmire-no account filed
April 2010HailAdmire-no account filed
May 2010HailAdmire-no account filed
May 2010HailAdmire-no account filed
August 2010HailAdmire-no account filed
March 2009HailAdmire-no account filed
March 2009HailAdmire-no account filed
July 2008HailAdmire-no account filed
June 2008HailAdmire-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindAdmire-no account filed
March 2006HailAdmire-no account filed
May 2006HailAdmire-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindAdmire-no account filed
June 2005HailAdmire-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAdmire-no account filed
May 2002HailAdmire-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindAdmire-no account filed
April 2001HailAdmire-no account filed
April 2001HailAdmire-no account filed
April 2001HailAdmire-no account filed
April 2001HailAdmire-no account filed
September 2000HailAdmire-no account filed
September 1999HailAdmire-no account filed
September 1999HailAdmire-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAdmire-no account filed
March 1998HailAdmire-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindAdmire-no account filed
April 1996HailAdmire-no account filed
March 1996HailAdmire-no account filed
June 1995HailAdmire-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Allen3.7 miles16
Miller6.0 miles14
Bushong8.2 miles16
Reading11.4 miles14
Americus12.5 miles15
Lang12.5 miles17
Berkeley Hills16.1 miles18
Emporia Junction16.7 miles18

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 AdmireAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2400026The 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 477042. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.