Elm Mills, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Elm Mills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67134. It stands on North Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sawyer quadrangle. It stands 1,722 feet above sea level.

Elm Mills within Barber County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Sawyer quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Medicine Lodge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

22 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elm Mills in 22 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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
September 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Elm Mills	-	A brief rope tornado was observed.
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Elm Mills	-	Rainfall of 2.0 inches was observed.
June 2016	Hail	Elm Mills	-	Winds also gusted to 60 MPH.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Elm Mills	-	There was also quarter sized hail.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Elm Mills	-	Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Elm Mills	-	This tornado did minor tree damage and then moved into Pratt county at 1019 PM CDT.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Elm Mills	-	This tornado did minor tree damage and crossed into Pratt county at 1021 PM CDT.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Elm Mills	-	Tin was blown off a barn.
July 2008	Hail	Elm Mills	-	The hail covered the ground. Hail fell off and on for 1 hour and varied from pea to quarter sized.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Elm Mills	-	Rainfall of 3.25 fell in 1 hour and 15 minutes.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Elm Mills	-	Large cottonwood tree branches were blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Elm Mills	-	A few shingles of home were torn off.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Elm Mills	-	Six to eight inch tree branches were blown down.
May 2016	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Elm Mills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barber 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Isabel	7.6 miles	14
Mingona	7.6 miles	14
Forest City	8.0 miles	14
Lake City	9.0 miles	14
Medicine Lodge	12.0 miles	14
Sun City	12.7 miles	14
Pixley	15.6 miles	14
Deerhead	18.0 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 Elm Mills	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5366290	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 484516. 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.

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.