Elsmore, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Elsmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66732. The Survey maps it on the Elsmore quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresElsmore fell from 77 to 50 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 | 77 | |
| 2020 | 50 | -27 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1904 USGS Iola quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Elsmore quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Chanute quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Elsmore between 2015 and 2018, burning about 489 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018017 |
| 7 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018010 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018024 |
| 31 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015018 |
| 30 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018009 |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015015 |
| 21 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Allen County | 2017009 |
| 21 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015012 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elsmore in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1993 | Hail | Elsmore | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Flood | Elsmore | $100 | Low water crossings had water over them across the county. |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Elsmore | - | A chaser video showed a brief touchdown in open country. No damage was found. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Elsmore | - | Reported was received via social media. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Elsmore | - | An estimated 60 plus mph winds were also reported. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsmore | - | Dime size hail was also noted with this storm. |
| November 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Elsmore | - | Brief touchdown. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Elsmore | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Elsmore | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Elsmore | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Elsmore | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsmore | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Elsmore | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsmore | - | 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.
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 Elsmore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2073612 | 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 474737. 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.










