Arma, Kansas
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66712. The Survey maps it on the Arma quadrangle. 1,407 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArma fell from 1,481 to 1,407 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 | 1,481 | |
| 2020 | 1,407 | -74 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 24 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Arma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
97 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Arma between 2015 and 2020, burning about 531 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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 burning | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-081 |
| 10 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Crawford County | 017-085 |
| 27 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-16 |
| 4 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-058 |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-056 |
| 12 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-017 |
| 11 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018-09 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arma in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | $10,000 | A large tree was blown on to a mobile home. This report was from a picture on social media. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | $10,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts damaged an outbuilding and knocked it off of its foundation. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Arma | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | $5,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few power lines. |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Arma | - | Social media report of hail to the size of quarters in Arma, Kansas. |
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Arma | - | A police officer from Franklin, KS reported multiple roads and city streets flooded and impassable. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | - | A large tree was reported down across the road at the 200 block of east Melvin Street in Arma. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | - | A large tree limb was blown down between 8th and 9th Street on Washington Road. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | - | Law enforcement estimated wind speeds between 70 and 80 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | - | Multiple trees were blown down across 650 Avenue near the town of Arma. |
| August 2015 | Flash Flood | Arma | - | There was brief flooding over a section of Miners Highway. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Arma | - | A picture from Facebook showed the hail. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Arma | - | Heavy thunderstorms caused flash flooding in a few areas of Crawford County. One specific location that became impassable to motorists was a section of County Road 210 west of Arma. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Arma | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Arma | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Arma | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Arma | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Arma | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Arma | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Arma | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arma | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Arma | - | 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.
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 Arma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2276099 | 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 475148. 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.













