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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Kimeo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2001 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Horton Agency | B-FRANKLIN |
| 13 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1553 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimeo | $1,000 | A 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 1993 | Hail | Kimeo | $500 | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Kimeo | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimeo | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Kimeo | - | Roads flooded along Upland Road, south of Greenleaf. Time of flooding estimated. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Kimeo | - | Hail was covering much of the ground. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Kimeo | - | Hail size ranged from golf ball to tennis ball size. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimeo | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimeo | - | Numerous 6 to 8 inch tree limbs were down around the property. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Kimeo | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Kimeo | - | 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.
| Wikidata item Q122564865 | 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 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.






