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Elmont, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Soldier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66618. The Survey maps it on the Elmont quadrangle.

Elmont within Shawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

152 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Elmont between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,166 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 were 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 August 2018Fireworks1.0 acresKansas Forest Service678
2 August 2018Smoking5.0 acresKansas Forest Service675
10 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service12334
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service587
22 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee County535
19 July 2017Smokingunder an acreShawnee County528
28 June 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service330
24 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service481

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmont in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 17 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 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 2012Thunderstorm WindElmont$10,000At a residence south of Hoyt a metal roof was ripped off of an outbuilding. A hay barn made out of pole shed was destroyed, and a narrow corridor of cottonwood trees were also heavily damaged.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindElmont$10,000At least 5 residences sustained minor damage from a microburst. Part of a roof was damaged and power linew sere down at 83rd and NW Topeka Boulevard. One home had an enclosed porch collapse, and several trees were damaged.
April 2026Flash FloodElmont$5,000The intersection of 82nd and silver road is impassable due to high water over the road.
June 2004LightningElmont$2,000Lightning struck a house and started a fire that did some damage to a bathroom.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindElmont$1,000Two to four inch diameter limbs were broken. A storage shed had a room and two sides damaged.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindElmont-Tree limbs down, estimated 65 mph gusts.
June 2023HailElmont-Quarter sized hail reported.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindElmont-Wind gust of 60 mph reported. No known damage.
May 2022HailElmont-Quarter sized hail reported.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindElmont-Report of a fence blown over.
July 2020Flash FloodElmont-Report from a spotter of 7 to 8 inches of water flowing across US Highway 24 near Meriden Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindElmont-Four inch diameter tree limb down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindElmont-Several tree limbs up to 10 inch in diameter were down.
May 2017HailElmont-Report from 46th and Button Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindElmont-Outbuilding was destroyed along with a tree blown down (size unknown).
July 2016Thunderstorm WindElmont-Several large tree branches reported down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindElmont-Tree limbs around 3 inches in diameter down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindElmont-Tree limbs around 3 inches in diameter down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindElmont-Tree limbs around 6 inch in diameter down at NE 50th and Rochester.
June 2011FloodElmont-The intersection of Kincaid Road, Sherman Road, and 70th Street was closed due to water flowing across the road from Muddy Creek.
July 2009FloodElmont-Shawnee County sheriff closed the road at the 8200 block of Sherman and the intersection of NE 82 and Silver. Estimated around 4 inches of water was over the road.
August 2001FloodElmont-Heavy rains caused water to cover roads near Elmont for a time.
September 1993HailElmont-A large well defined rotating wall cloud produced several funnel clouds as it moved southeast across the extreme northeast section of the county.
April 2026HailElmont-no account filed
August 2019HailElmont-no account filed
June 2017HailElmont-no account filed
June 2017HailElmont-no account filed
April 2017HailElmont-no account filed
October 2014HailElmont-no account filed
May 2011HailElmont-no account filed
May 2009HailElmont-no account filed
June 2004HailElmont-no account filed
April 2001HailElmont-no account filed
May 2000HailElmont-no account filed
May 2000HailElmont-no account filed
May 2000HailElmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
Menoken5.8 miles20
North Topeka6.7 miles21
Kiro6.9 miles20
Oakland7.7 miles21
Topeka8.2 miles21
Grove8.3 miles19
Belmont8.9 miles21
Silver Lake9.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478465. 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.