Climax, Kansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fall River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67137. It stands on Snake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Severy North quadrangle. 45 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClimax fell from 72 to 45 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 | 72 | |
| 2020 | 45 | -27 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1885 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1939 USGS Severy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Severy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Severy North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Climax between 2015 and 2018, burning about 5,972 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Greenwood County | 111 |
| 17 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 137 |
| 15 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Greenwood County | 96 |
| 7 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Greenwood County | 74 |
| 6 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Greenwood County | 72 |
| 11 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Greenwood County | 82 |
| 7 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | Greenwood County | 110TH AND GG RD |
| 21 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 450 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 48 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Climax in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | $75,000 | One cattle barn was destroyed from which 1 wall was left standing. A machine shed was also totally destroyed. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | $10,000 | Roof blown off house. Numerous tree limbs blown down. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Climax | - | Twenty four hour rainfall total from a Mesonet site of 2.14 inches. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Climax | - | A Cocorahs observer 2.5 miles northwest of Climax reported 3.49 inches of rainfall in 24 hours. |
| March 2021 | Heavy Rain | Climax | - | This is a 72 hour rainfall total. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Climax | - | Flooding was reported along Otter Creek. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Climax | - | Hail was covering the ground 1 mile south of Climax. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Climax | - | Pea to Quarter sized hail covered Kansas Highway 99. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Climax | - | Water was reported over the roadway. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Climax | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Climax | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Climax | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Severy | 6.7 miles | 19 | |
| Landergin (historical) | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Eureka | 8.0 miles | 14 | |
| Tonovay | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| Piedmont | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Neal | 10.9 miles | 14 | |
| Rocky Ford | 11.3 miles | 14 | |
| Utopia | 12.3 miles | 14 |
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 Climax | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q302028 | 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 474872. 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.









