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.
Population over time
2 figuresEverest 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 284 | |
| 2020 | 265 | -19 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Everest quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Brown County | 1738 |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018019 |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015013 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015009 |
| 28 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016013 |
| 22 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500042 |
| 22 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015019 |
| 11 March 2015 | Smoking | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015012 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Everest | $500,000 | The tornado was mostly aloft during its path and damaged about five farmsteads and attending buildings and barns. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | $9,000 | Strong winds blew the roof off a mobile home. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | $6,000 | Strong winds damaged a home, an outbuilding, and destroyed a shed. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Measured by the Mesonet. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Tree limbs 1 inch in diameter blown down, shingles blown off roof. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Tree limbs 3 inches in diameter broken, power lines broken. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Everest | - | Social media pictures of 2.25 inch hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Everest | - | A funnel cloud was reported by a trained spotter. |
| August 2007 | Tornado (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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Two 24 inch diameter trees knocked down. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Large Limb down...possibly damaged spotters car. Cast Iron bench blown over in yard. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Broken Windows with downed trees and power lines. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | Strong winds did crop damage near Everest. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Everest | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Everest | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Everest | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Everest | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Everest | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Everest | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Everest | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Everest | - | 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 Everest | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1866445 | 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 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.









