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.
Population over time
2 figuresBucyrus 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 171 | -22 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1887 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Bucyrus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
86 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 35 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 27 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2700111 |
| 1 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 30 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 22 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 8 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Johnson County | 1890137 |
| 19 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
| 19 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Johnson County | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | $25,000 | A house was damaged by thunderstorm winds in Bucyrus. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | $5,000 | Trees were downed, and a shed was damaged. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Bucyrus | $5,000 | Hail up to dime-size occurred in many areas across the entire county between 2330 and 2400 CST. Accumlated several inches deep. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | $1,000 | Gutter and siding was lost on a house due to high winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | $500 | A power line was reported down in Bucyrus. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | Golf ball sized hail reported south of Wea. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Downed wires and power outages near 232nd Street near Wea/Bucyrus. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Downed tree limbs and wires near Mohawk Street east of Wea and just west of the state line. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Multiple social media reports of downed trees in the Bucyrus area. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Downed power wires with power outages reported east of Bucyrus just west of the State Line. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Downed power wires with power outages reported east of Bucyrus just west of the State Line. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Downed power lines just west of the state line northeast of Louisburg. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Damage was reported to fences and power lines. The damage was located roughly between HWY 69 and Stateline from 223rd and 247th St. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Bucyrus | - | Heavy rains caused flooding at 223rd and US Highway 69. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Severe thunderstorm winds knocked down 8 inch diameter tree limbs in Bucyras. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | Public reported 4 inch diameter tree limbs down and power poles blown over in Bucyrus. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucyrus | - | 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 1995 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | Hail up to dime-size occurred in many areas across the entire county between 2330 and 2400 CST. Accumlated several inches deep. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bucyrus | - | 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 Bucyrus | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3885456 | 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 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.







