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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.

Arma within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Arma 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,481
20201,407-74 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

97 since 2015

Regional 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
6 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-081
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2017Fireworksunder an acreCrawford County017-085
27 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015-16
4 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-058
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-056
12 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service018-017
11 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2018-09

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Thunderstorm WindArma$10,000A large tree was blown on to a mobile home. This report was from a picture on social media.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindArma$10,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts damaged an outbuilding and knocked it off of its foundation.
May 2011HailArma$10,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindArma$10,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindArma$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few power lines.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindArma$3,000no account filed
May 2024HailArma-Social media report of hail to the size of quarters in Arma, Kansas.
April 2019Flash FloodArma-A police officer from Franklin, KS reported multiple roads and city streets flooded and impassable.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindArma-A large tree was reported down across the road at the 200 block of east Melvin Street in Arma.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindArma-A large tree limb was blown down between 8th and 9th Street on Washington Road.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindArma-Law enforcement estimated wind speeds between 70 and 80 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindArma-Multiple trees were blown down across 650 Avenue near the town of Arma.
August 2015Flash FloodArma-There was brief flooding over a section of Miners Highway.
May 2013HailArma-A picture from Facebook showed the hail.
May 2005Flash FloodArma-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 2017HailArma-no account filed
May 2008HailArma-no account filed
June 2004HailArma-no account filed
May 2004HailArma-no account filed
July 2003HailArma-no account filed
July 2003HailArma-no account filed
April 2001HailArma-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindArma-no account filed
July 1995HailArma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Franklin1.2 miles24
Croweburg2.0 miles24
Polk2.2 miles24
Barber3.2 miles24
Edison3.2 miles24
Fox Town3.4 miles24
Englevale3.7 miles24
Mertz3.9 miles24

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 ArmaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2276099The 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.