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Emmett, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Emmett Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66422. It stands on Bartlett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emmett quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Emmett within Pottawatomie County

Population over time

2 figures

Emmett fell from 191 to 170 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
2010191
2020170-21 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

13 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Emmett between 2015 and 2018, burning about 897 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
8 April 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePottawatomie County201718
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service1175925
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKansas Forest Service23
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKansas Forest Service20
18 March 2017Debris and open burning60 acresJackson County15
10 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Service13
8 February 2015Smoking12 acresKansas Forest Service9
28 February 2017Debris and open burning160 acresJackson County9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emmett in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 21 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEmmett$4,000Strong winds blew down a power line.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEmmett$3,000Strong thunderstorm winds did numerous damage to glass at the Jeffrey Energy Center.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEmmett-Two coal cars were blown over.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEmmett-Winds estimated.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEmmett-Trees down in the road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEmmett-Part of roof of house blown off.
June 2011HailEmmett-A trained spotter on Highway 63 reported golfball-sized hail and 50 mph winds.
June 2011HailEmmett-This report was relayed through dispatch.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEmmett-Mobile homes lost 3/4's of its rood on Holly Cross Rd.
September 2009HailEmmett-Public estimated 1.5 inch hail.
June 2008HailEmmett-Several trained spotters reported hail between one inch and one and a half inches in diameter. Forty to fifty mile per hour winds also reported.
August 2005LightningEmmett-Garage struck by lightning and burnt to the ground. Tools and farm parts were also lost in the fire.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Emmett-The fifth tornado touched down over open country near Emmett.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEmmett-no account filed
June 2015HailEmmett-no account filed
June 2011HailEmmett-no account filed
June 2011HailEmmett-no account filed
June 2011HailEmmett-no account filed
June 2011HailEmmett-no account filed
September 2009HailEmmett-no account filed
July 2008HailEmmett-no account filed
April 2006HailEmmett-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindEmmett-no account filed
June 2004HailEmmett-no account filed
June 2003HailEmmett-no account filed
July 2003HailEmmett-no account filed
July 2003HailEmmett-no account filed
July 2002HailEmmett-no account filed
September 2002HailEmmett-no account filed
May 2000HailEmmett-no account filed
May 2000HailEmmett-no account filed
August 2000HailEmmett-no account filed
October 1997Tornado (F0)Emmett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Saint Clere4.3 miles16
Aikins5.3 miles16
Saint Marys7.8 miles16
Belvue9.0 miles17
Laclede9.2 miles16
Onaga13.9 miles15
Havensville14.1 miles14
Louisville14.3 miles16

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 EmmettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2439055The 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 476257. 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.