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.
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
St. Joseph Catholic Churchlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresDamar 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 132 | |
| 2020 | 112 | -20 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1893 USGS Hill quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1893 USGS Hill City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Palco quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Plainville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1800004 |
| 4 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,500 acres | Rooks County | 1700003 |
| 18 February 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 25 January 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Rooks County | 1700001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Hail | Damar | $250,000 | Hail up to the size of tennis balls nearly covered the ground. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Damar | $75,000 | Storm 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in some downed power lines. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Damar | $25,000 | Quarter size hail fell intermittently for about 15 minutes in Damar from a severe thunderstorm nearby. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Damar | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $25,000 | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Damar | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Damar | $20,000 | Pea to quarter size hail was reported with some tree limbs down. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Damar | $10,000 | Quarter to golfball size hail reported with heavy rain and strong winds. Observer reported two windows were broken by hail. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Damar | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $5,000 | Tree limbs of 4 to 5 inches in diameter blown down. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $3,000 | A 64 mph wind gusts was measured by an anemometer. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | $1,000 | Some minor tree damage was reported in Damar. |
| May 2018 | Heavy Rain | Damar | - | Storm total precipitation of 4.04 inches was measured by a mesonet site located 1 mile north-northwest of Damar. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Damar | - | 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 2016 | Heavy Rain | Damar | - | 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 1993 | Hail | Damar | - | Wind and hail up to golf ball-size damaged 1300 Acres of wheat. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Damar | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damar | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Damar | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palco | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Zurich | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| Webster (historical) | 9.6 miles | 13 | |
| Plainville | 16.2 miles | 12 | |
| Stockton | 18.7 miles | 14 | |
| Codell | 23.2 miles | 12 | |
| Laton | 26.9 miles | 12 | |
| Woodston | 27.5 miles | 13 |
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 Damar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666541 | 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 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.





