Emmeram, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Herzog Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67671. The Survey maps it on the Catharine quadrangle. It stands 2,005 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1896 USGS Hays quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Catharine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hays quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Emmeram between 2015 and 2018, burning about 7,626 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ellis County | 017-241 |
| 22 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Russell County | 19 |
| 15 June 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ellis County | 017-165 |
| 13 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0094 |
| 8 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ellis County | 017-069 |
| 7 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7,500 acres | Ellis County | 017-065 |
| 20 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Ellis County | 017-042 |
| 14 February 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emmeram in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 8 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmeram | - | Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Emmeram | - | Water was over the road. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Emmeram | - | Pea to dime sized hail covered the ground like snow. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmeram | - | Winds were estimated at 60 to 70 MPH. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Emmeram | - | Rainfall was 5.15 inches 3 miles northwest of Emmeram. Water was over many county roads in the area. |
| September 2016 | Heavy Rain | Emmeram | - | Rainfall of 7.57 inches was observed. |
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Emmeram | - | The initial ground contact was brief and weak. |
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Emmeram | - | This was an apparent weak circulation under a large wall cloud. |
| April 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Emmeram | - | No damage was observed from this tornado although there could have been some tree damage that was unacceptable to a survey. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Emmeram | - | Codell Road northeast of Hays was closed due to flooding. The north fork of Big Creek was rising fast so sand bagging was being done near a bridge near Victoria. |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | Emmeram | - | Rainfall of 4.65 inches fell overnight and early in the morning. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Emmeram | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Emmeram | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Emmeram | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Emmeram | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Emmeram | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Emmeram | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Emmeram | - | 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 Emmeram | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5373441 | 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 484724. 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.





