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Everest, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66424. The Survey maps it on the Everest quadrangle. 265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.

Everest within Brown County

Population over time

2 figures

Everest fell from 284 to 265 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
2010284
2020265-19 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

15 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Everest between 2015 and 2020, burning about 138 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBrown County1738
5 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018019
8 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015013
7 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015009
28 March 2016Debris and open burning30 acresKansas Forest Service2016013
22 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresKansas Forest Service1500042
22 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015019
11 March 2015Smoking6.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Everest in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 1993Tornado (F1)Everest$500,000The tornado was mostly aloft during its path and damaged about five farmsteads and attending buildings and barns.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindEverest$9,000Strong winds blew the roof off a mobile home.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindEverest$6,000Strong winds damaged a home, an outbuilding, and destroyed a shed.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEverest-Measured by the Mesonet.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEverest-Measured on a personal weather station.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEverest-Measured on a personal weather station.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindEverest-Tree limbs 1 inch in diameter blown down, shingles blown off roof.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindEverest-Tree limbs 3 inches in diameter broken, power lines broken.
May 2019HailEverest-Social media pictures of 2.25 inch hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEverest-Estimated wind gust.
June 2009Funnel CloudEverest-A funnel cloud was reported by a trained spotter.
August 2007Tornado (EF0)Everest-Deputy and Fire Fighter observed a brief tornado. A weak tornado damaged part of a cornfield and toppled the upper portion of a tree at 5180 334th Road.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindEverest-Two 24 inch diameter trees knocked down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEverest-Large Limb down...possibly damaged spotters car. Cast Iron bench blown over in yard.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEverest-Broken Windows with downed trees and power lines.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindEverest-Strong winds did crop damage near Everest.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindEverest-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEverest-no account filed
May 2011HailEverest-no account filed
March 2006HailEverest-no account filed
June 2006HailEverest-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindEverest-no account filed
July 2004HailEverest-no account filed
July 2004HailEverest-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindEverest-no account filed
June 2004HailEverest-no account filed
September 2002HailEverest-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Willis5.4 miles17
Horton5.5 miles17
Baker9.1 miles18
Mercier9.6 miles17
Robinson9.7 miles20
Powhattan12.3 miles17
Hiawatha13.5 miles18
Padonia18.5 miles17

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 EverestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1866445The 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 473256. 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.