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Formoso, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66942. The Survey maps it on the Courtland quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,522 feet above sea level.

Formoso within Jewell County

Population over time

2 figures

Formoso grew from 93 to 94 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
201093
202094+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Formoso between 2015 and 2018, burning about 14 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2

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 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1500023
29 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800009
26 February 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service1800004
20 February 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service2016001
31 October 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2016008

Every fire recorded in Jewell County

Storms near this place

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Formoso in 30 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 2015Tornado (EF1)Formoso$250,000This tornado touched down southeast of Formoso, traveling about 4 miles before lifting northeast of Formoso. This tornado was rated an EF1, with an estimated peak wind speed of 110 MPH. Tree and power pole damage was noted along its path, and one home sustained roof, window and siding damage. An outbuilding was also destroyed.
April 2001Tornado (F0)Formoso$70,000Exited Jewell county and entered Republic county
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFormoso$50,000CoCoRaHS observer reported that gusts estimated at 70 MPH caused lots of tree damage. Time estimated from radar data.
June 2010Flash FloodFormoso$30,000no account filed
April 2016HailFormoso$25,000Largest hail was size of ping pong balls, majority was smaller.
June 2004HailFormoso$25,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFormoso$12,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFormoso$10,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindFormoso$3,000Wind gusts estimated near 60 mph knocked down part of a tree onto a power line, resulting in a house fire.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Formoso$2,000This was the start of a very long lived, two state tornado. The tornado exited Jewell County and entered into Republic County. The twister would eventually exit the State of Kansas and enter the State of Nebraska near the town of Hubbell, Nebraska. Only damage noted in Jewell county was to some trees .
June 2008HailFormoso$2,000no account filed
July 2020Heavy RainFormoso-A 24-hour total rainfall amount of 4.18 inches was recorded by a CoCoRaHS Observer located in Formoso.
June 2019HailFormoso-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFormoso-A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile north-northeast of Formoso.
June 2018Heavy RainFormoso-A storm total rainfall amount of 4.63 inches was recorded in Formoso, with 4.33 inches recorded three miles east-northeast of Webber.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindFormoso-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
May 2019HailFormoso-no account filed
April 2016HailFormoso-no account filed
May 2016HailFormoso-no account filed
April 2015HailFormoso-no account filed
September 2015HailFormoso-no account filed
August 2014HailFormoso-no account filed
May 2011HailFormoso-no account filed
March 2006HailFormoso-no account filed
April 2005HailFormoso-no account filed
April 2005HailFormoso-no account filed
May 2004HailFormoso-no account filed
June 2003HailFormoso-no account filed
May 2003HailFormoso-no account filed
May 2001HailFormoso-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jewell 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
Montrose5.1 miles13
Lovewell5.9 miles13
Randall9.9 miles13
Webber10.9 miles13
Jewell11.4 miles13
Mankato11.6 miles13
Burr Oak17.6 miles13
Otego19.1 miles13

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 FormosoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2445658The 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 472818. 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.