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Kimeo, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kimeo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66943. The Survey maps it on the Kimeo quadrangle.

Kimeo within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kimeo between 2001 and 2015, burning about 101 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
13 July 2001Natural1.0 acresHorton AgencyB-FRANKLIN
13 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKansas Forest Service1553

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimeo in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKimeo$1,000A two foot diameter Locust tree was snapped half way up from the base. Elsewhere near Linn a few maple trees had 12 inch limbs broken.
September 1993HailKimeo$500no account filed
September 1993HailKimeo$500no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKimeo-Measured on a personal weather station.
May 2016Flash FloodKimeo-Roads flooded along Upland Road, south of Greenleaf. Time of flooding estimated.
May 2016HailKimeo-Hail was covering much of the ground.
May 2016HailKimeo-Hail size ranged from golf ball to tennis ball size.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindKimeo-Wind gusts estimated.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindKimeo-Numerous 6 to 8 inch tree limbs were down around the property.
June 2017HailKimeo-no account filed
August 2015HailKimeo-no account filed
September 2015HailKimeo-no account filed
September 2015HailKimeo-no account filed
June 2012HailKimeo-no account filed
June 2011HailKimeo-no account filed
April 2010HailKimeo-no account filed
July 2007HailKimeo-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindKimeo-no account filed
April 2001HailKimeo-no account filed
October 1998HailKimeo-no account filed
May 1996HailKimeo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Chepstow5.3 miles15
Linn7.5 miles13
Palmer8.1 miles13
Greenleaf9.2 miles15
Barnes10.2 miles15
Enosdale15.0 miles13
Clifton15.2 miles13
Washington15.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122564865The 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 484636. 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.