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.
Population over time
2 figuresEmmett 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 191 | |
| 2020 | 170 | -21 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1889 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Emmett quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 201718 |
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1175925 |
| 31 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 23 |
| 29 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 20 |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Jackson County | 15 |
| 10 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 13 |
| 8 February 2015 | Smoking | 12 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 9 |
| 28 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Jackson County | 9 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | $4,000 | Strong winds blew down a power line. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds did numerous damage to glass at the Jeffrey Energy Center. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | - | Two coal cars were blown over. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | - | Winds estimated. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | - | Trees down in the road. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | - | Part of roof of house blown off. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emmett | - | A trained spotter on Highway 63 reported golfball-sized hail and 50 mph winds. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emmett | - | This report was relayed through dispatch. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | - | Mobile homes lost 3/4's of its rood on Holly Cross Rd. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Emmett | - | Public estimated 1.5 inch hail. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Emmett | - | 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 2005 | Lightning | Emmett | - | Garage struck by lightning and burnt to the ground. Tools and farm parts were also lost in the fire. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Emmett | - | The fifth tornado touched down over open country near Emmett. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Emmett | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Emmett | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Clere | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Aikins | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Marys | 7.8 miles | 16 | |
| Belvue | 9.0 miles | 17 | |
| Laclede | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Onaga | 13.9 miles | 15 | |
| Havensville | 14.1 miles | 14 | |
| Louisville | 14.3 miles | 16 |
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 Emmett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2439055 | 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 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.







