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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.

Agra within Phillips County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Agra 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.

YearPeople Change
2010267
2020208-59 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015015
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015017
9 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2016004
18 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSmith County2017011

Every fire recorded in Phillips County

Storms near this place

43 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014HailAgra$250,000Hail ranging in size from golf balls to softballs was reported.
October 2017HailAgra$150,000Hail ranging in size from half dollars to baseballs was reported.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAgra$125,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Crop damage was reported from the combination of wind and hail of unknown size.
June 2000HailAgra$100,000no account filed
May 2008Flash FloodAgra$50,000Thunderstorms 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 2017HailAgra$25,000no account filed
August 2015HailAgra$25,000no account filed
June 2011HailAgra$25,000no account filed
May 2007HailAgra$25,000no account filed
May 2016HailAgra$15,000no account filed
May 2007HailAgra$10,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAgra$10,000no account filed
June 2002HailAgra$10,000no account filed
May 2007HailAgra$5,000no account filed
May 2007HailAgra$5,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAgra$3,000no account filed
May 2008HailAgra$2,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAgra-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH by a CoCoRaHS observer located six miles east of Phillipsburg.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAgra-A 61 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles west-southwest of Agra.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAgra-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 75 MPH. Dime size hail was also reported.
May 2012HailAgra-Hail was accompanied by wind gusts of 55 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAgra-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAgra-Some tree limbs were blown down.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Agra-A brief tornado was observed in northeast Phillips county. The tornado was seen by law enforcement personel.
May 2024HailAgra-no account filed
May 2024HailAgra-no account filed
April 2022HailAgra-no account filed
May 2018HailAgra-no account filed
May 2017HailAgra-no account filed
June 2016HailAgra-no account filed
August 2015HailAgra-no account filed
July 2008HailAgra-no account filed
March 2006HailAgra-no account filed
June 2005HailAgra-no account filed
June 2004HailAgra-no account filed
September 2003HailAgra-no account filed
July 2001HailAgra-no account filed
May 1999HailAgra-no account filed
May 1996HailAgra-no account filed
May 1996HailAgra-no account filed
July 1995HailAgra-no account filed
July 1995HailAgra-no account filed
May 1993HailAgra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phillips 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
Gretna5.0 miles13
Kirwin6.1 miles13
Phillipsburg10.9 miles13
Glade11.4 miles13
Speed17.0 miles13
Stuttgart18.0 miles13
Woodruff22.8 miles13
Prairie View24.5 miles13

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 AgraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2827127The 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.