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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.

Climax within Greenwood County

Population over time

2 figures

Climax 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.

YearPeople Change
201072
202045-27 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

14 since 2015

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
1 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGreenwood County111
17 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service137
15 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGreenwood County96
7 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGreenwood County74
6 April 2017Debris and open burning40 acresGreenwood County72
11 April 2017Debris and open burning30 acresGreenwood County82
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresGreenwood County110TH AND GG RD
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined450 acresKansas Forest Service48

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009Thunderstorm WindClimax$75,000One cattle barn was destroyed from which 1 wall was left standing. A machine shed was also totally destroyed.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindClimax$10,000Roof blown off house. Numerous tree limbs blown down.
May 2024Heavy RainClimax-Twenty four hour rainfall total from a Mesonet site of 2.14 inches.
June 2022Heavy RainClimax-A Cocorahs observer 2.5 miles northwest of Climax reported 3.49 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
March 2021Heavy RainClimax-This is a 72 hour rainfall total.
May 2015FloodClimax-Flooding was reported along Otter Creek.
April 2014HailClimax-Hail was covering the ground 1 mile south of Climax.
April 2013HailClimax-Pea to Quarter sized hail covered Kansas Highway 99.
June 2005Flash FloodClimax-Water was reported over the roadway.
May 2023HailClimax-no account filed
May 2023HailClimax-no account filed
May 2023HailClimax-no account filed
April 2014HailClimax-no account filed
April 2014HailClimax-no account filed
April 2014HailClimax-no account filed
April 2013HailClimax-no account filed
April 2013HailClimax-no account filed
June 2012HailClimax-no account filed
March 2010HailClimax-no account filed
April 2009HailClimax-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClimax-no account filed
June 2008HailClimax-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindClimax-no account filed
June 1996HailClimax-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Severy6.7 miles19
Landergin (historical)7.8 miles14
Eureka8.0 miles14
Tonovay9.5 miles14
Piedmont10.0 miles14
Neal10.9 miles14
Rocky Ford11.3 miles14
Utopia12.3 miles14

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 ClimaxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q302028The 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.