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Bucyrus, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Ten Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66013. The Survey maps it on the Bucyrus quadrangle. 171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Bucyrus within Miami County

Population over time

2 figures

Bucyrus fell from 193 to 171 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
2010193
2020171-22 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

86 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Bucyrus between 2006 and 2020, burning about 337 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Debris and open burning32
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
27 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2700111
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
22 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County1890137
19 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
19 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucyrus in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindBucyrus$25,000A house was damaged by thunderstorm winds in Bucyrus.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindBucyrus$5,000Trees were downed, and a shed was damaged.
April 1995HailBucyrus$5,000Hail up to dime-size occurred in many areas across the entire county between 2330 and 2400 CST. Accumlated several inches deep.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBucyrus$1,000Gutter and siding was lost on a house due to high winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBucyrus$500A power line was reported down in Bucyrus. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2026HailBucyrus-Golf ball sized hail reported south of Wea.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Downed wires and power outages near 232nd Street near Wea/Bucyrus.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Downed tree limbs and wires near Mohawk Street east of Wea and just west of the state line.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Multiple social media reports of downed trees in the Bucyrus area.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Downed power wires with power outages reported east of Bucyrus just west of the State Line.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Downed power wires with power outages reported east of Bucyrus just west of the State Line.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Downed power lines just west of the state line northeast of Louisburg.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Damage was reported to fences and power lines. The damage was located roughly between HWY 69 and Stateline from 223rd and 247th St.
August 2004Flash FloodBucyrus-Heavy rains caused flooding at 223rd and US Highway 69.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Severe thunderstorm winds knocked down 8 inch diameter tree limbs in Bucyras.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Public reported 4 inch diameter tree limbs down and power poles blown over in Bucyrus.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-The Miami County Sheriff's Office reported a wind gust to 60 MPH during a severe thunderstorm 2 miles west of Bucyrus. The winds were observed at the intersection of Highway 169 and 223rd Street. A wind gust to 70 MPH was observed a mile north of Paola near Hillsdale Lake.
April 1995HailBucyrus-Hail up to dime-size occurred in many areas across the entire county between 2330 and 2400 CST. Accumlated several inches deep.
June 2009HailBucyrus-no account filed
March 2006HailBucyrus-no account filed
September 2003HailBucyrus-no account filed
April 2003HailBucyrus-no account filed
June 2001HailBucyrus-no account filed
June 2001HailBucyrus-no account filed
May 1999HailBucyrus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Wea2.8 miles17
Chiles4.0 miles17
Wagstaff5.9 miles17
Louisburg7.6 miles16
Hillsdale8.4 miles17
Somerset8.8 miles17
Lento10.2 miles17
Antioch12.0 miles17

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 BucyrusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3885456The 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 479417. 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.