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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.

Emmeram within Ellis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

12 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
26 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresEllis County017-241
22 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use25 acresRussell County19
15 June 2017Natural1.0 acresEllis County017-165
13 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKansas Forest Service15-0094
8 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresEllis County017-069
7 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use7,500 acresEllis County017-065
20 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresEllis County017-042
14 February 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

18 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEmmeram-Winds were estimated to be at least 60 MPH.
July 2018Flash FloodEmmeram-Water was over the road.
May 2018HailEmmeram-Pea to dime sized hail covered the ground like snow.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindEmmeram-Winds were estimated at 60 to 70 MPH.
July 2017Flash FloodEmmeram-Rainfall was 5.15 inches 3 miles northwest of Emmeram. Water was over many county roads in the area.
September 2016Heavy RainEmmeram-Rainfall of 7.57 inches was observed.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Emmeram-The initial ground contact was brief and weak.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Emmeram-This was an apparent weak circulation under a large wall cloud.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Emmeram-No damage was observed from this tornado although there could have been some tree damage that was unacceptable to a survey.
June 2007FloodEmmeram-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 2007Heavy RainEmmeram-Rainfall of 4.65 inches fell overnight and early in the morning.
March 2024HailEmmeram-no account filed
May 2018HailEmmeram-no account filed
June 2016HailEmmeram-no account filed
April 2015HailEmmeram-no account filed
April 2013HailEmmeram-no account filed
July 2011HailEmmeram-no account filed
May 1999HailEmmeram-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Catharine5.0 miles15
Walker7.0 miles15
Victoria7.3 miles14
Toulon9.4 miles14
Turkville11.7 miles12
Hays11.7 miles16
Munjor12.4 miles16
Yocemento15.9 miles15

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 EmmeramAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5373441The 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.