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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.

Elsmore within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

Elsmore 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.

YearPeople Change
201077
202050-27 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

23 since 2015

Regional 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2

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
25 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018017
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018010
28 April 2018Debris and open burning120 acresKansas Forest Service2018024
31 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service2015018
30 March 2018Debris and open burning12 acresKansas Forest Service2018009
22 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015015
21 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAllen County2017009
21 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service2015012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1993HailElsmore$5,000no account filed
August 2013FloodElsmore$100Low water crossings had water over them across the county.
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Elsmore-A chaser video showed a brief touchdown in open country. No damage was found.
June 2019HailElsmore-Reported was received via social media.
September 2016HailElsmore-An estimated 60 plus mph winds were also reported.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindElsmore-Dime size hail was also noted with this storm.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Elsmore-Brief touchdown.
April 2024HailElsmore-no account filed
June 2011HailElsmore-no account filed
April 2006HailElsmore-no account filed
March 2006HailElsmore-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindElsmore-no account filed
July 2001HailElsmore-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindElsmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Savonburg3.1 miles21
Moran8.5 miles17
Leanna10.6 miles19
La Harpe11.6 miles18
Gas13.7 miles18
Bayard13.8 miles17
Humboldt15.2 miles18
Bassett15.4 miles18

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 ElsmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2073612The 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.