Agra, Kansas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Plum Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67621. The Survey maps it on the Kensington quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,850 feet above sea level.
On record in Agra
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
- Agra Consolidated Schoollisted 2005
- Agra Lake and Parklisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresAgra fell from 267 to 208 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 267 | |
| 2020 | 208 | -59 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Phillipsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1973 USGS Kensington quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Agra between 2015 and 2017, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015015 |
| 16 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015017 |
| 9 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2016004 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Smith County | 2017011 |
Storms near this place
43 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agra in 43 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 33 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Hail | Agra | $250,000 | Hail ranging in size from golf balls to softballs was reported. |
| October 2017 | Hail | Agra | $150,000 | Hail ranging in size from half dollars to baseballs was reported. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | $125,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Crop damage was reported from the combination of wind and hail of unknown size. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Agra | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Agra | $50,000 | Thunderstorms rumbled across northern Kansas and dumped several inches of rain across Phillips County. This caused several rural roads and area creeks and streams to flood. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Agra | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Agra | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Agra | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Agra | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Agra | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Agra | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Agra | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Agra | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Agra | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Agra | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH by a CoCoRaHS observer located six miles east of Phillipsburg. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | - | A 61 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles west-southwest of Agra. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 75 MPH. Dime size hail was also reported. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Agra | - | Hail was accompanied by wind gusts of 55 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | - | Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agra | - | Some tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Agra | - | A brief tornado was observed in northeast Phillips county. The tornado was seen by law enforcement personel. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Agra | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gretna | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Kirwin | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Phillipsburg | 10.9 miles | 13 | |
| Glade | 11.4 miles | 13 | |
| Speed | 17.0 miles | 13 | |
| Stuttgart | 18.0 miles | 13 | |
| Woodruff | 22.8 miles | 13 | |
| Prairie View | 24.5 miles | 13 |
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 Agra | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2827127 | The 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 471935. 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.




