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Damar, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 7. It lies in ZIP code area 67632. It stands on Benoits Dusty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palco quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,106 feet above sea level.

Damar within Rooks County

On record in Damar

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Damar fell from 132 to 112 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
2010132
2020112-20 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Damar between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,501 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800004
4 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use1,500 acresRooks County1700003
18 February 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2
25 January 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRooks County1700001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rooks County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Damar in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 22 hail, 10 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
August 2011HailDamar$250,000Hail up to the size of tennis balls nearly covered the ground.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDamar$100,000no account filed
September 2016Flash FloodDamar$75,000Storm total rainfall amounts of 4 to 7 inches were reported. Emergency management reported numerous county roads covered in water across the area and a few culverts were washed out.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDamar$50,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in some downed power lines.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDamar$50,000no account filed
June 2005HailDamar$25,000Quarter size hail fell intermittently for about 15 minutes in Damar from a severe thunderstorm nearby.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindDamar$25,000no account filed
June 2005HailDamar$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDamar$25,000no account filed
September 2003HailDamar$25,000no account filed
May 2008HailDamar$20,000Pea to quarter size hail was reported with some tree limbs down.
June 2008HailDamar$10,000Quarter to golfball size hail reported with heavy rain and strong winds. Observer reported two windows were broken by hail.
May 1995HailDamar$10,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDamar$5,000Tree limbs of 4 to 5 inches in diameter blown down.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindDamar$5,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindDamar$3,000A 64 mph wind gusts was measured by an anemometer.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindDamar$1,000Some minor tree damage was reported in Damar.
May 2018Heavy RainDamar-Storm total precipitation of 4.04 inches was measured by a mesonet site located 1 mile north-northwest of Damar.
September 2016Heavy RainDamar-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.14 inches was reported, most of which fell between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. CST.
September 2016Heavy RainDamar-A storm total rainfall amount of 5.52 inches was reported, most of which fell between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. CST.
May 1993HailDamar-Wind and hail up to golf ball-size damaged 1300 Acres of wheat.
May 2021HailDamar-no account filed
July 2018HailDamar-no account filed
May 2013HailDamar-no account filed
April 2010HailDamar-no account filed
May 2010HailDamar-no account filed
May 2010HailDamar-no account filed
June 2010HailDamar-no account filed
April 2005HailDamar-no account filed
June 2005HailDamar-no account filed
June 2005HailDamar-no account filed
June 2003HailDamar-no account filed
May 2002HailDamar-no account filed
April 2001HailDamar-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDamar-no account filed
May 1999HailDamar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rooks 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
Palco4.7 miles13
Zurich9.6 miles12
Webster (historical)9.6 miles13
Plainville16.2 miles12
Stockton18.7 miles14
Codell23.2 miles12
Laton26.9 miles12
Woodston27.5 miles13

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 DamarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666541The 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 472364. 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.