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.
Population over time
2 figuresFormoso 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 93 | |
| 2020 | 94 | +1 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1892 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Concordia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2015Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500023 |
| 29 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1800009 |
| 26 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800004 |
| 20 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016001 |
| 31 October 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2016008 |
Storms near this place
30 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Formoso | $250,000 | This 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 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Formoso | $70,000 | Exited Jewell county and entered Republic county |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Formoso | $50,000 | CoCoRaHS observer reported that gusts estimated at 70 MPH caused lots of tree damage. Time estimated from radar data. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Formoso | $30,000 | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Formoso | $25,000 | Largest hail was size of ping pong balls, majority was smaller. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Formoso | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Formoso | $12,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Formoso | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Formoso | $3,000 | Wind gusts estimated near 60 mph knocked down part of a tree onto a power line, resulting in a house fire. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Formoso | $2,000 | This 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 2008 | Hail | Formoso | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Heavy Rain | Formoso | - | A 24-hour total rainfall amount of 4.18 inches was recorded by a CoCoRaHS Observer located in Formoso. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Formoso | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Formoso | - | A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile north-northeast of Formoso. |
| June 2018 | Heavy Rain | Formoso | - | 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Formoso | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Formoso | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Formoso | - | 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 Formoso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2445658 | 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 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.





