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Munjor, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Freedom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67601. The Survey maps it on the Hays South quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,946 feet above sea level.

Munjor within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Munjor grew from 213 to 232 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
2010213
2020232+19 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

21 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Munjor between 2015 and 2020, burning about 16 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1597
4 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreEllis County1164
16 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1169
15 June 2017Natural1.0 acresEllis County017-164
10 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service173
7 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service141
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service99
28 March 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service15-0044

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Munjor in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 hail, 1 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMunjor$4,000Eight power poles blown down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMunjor-The wind speeds were estimated.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMunjor-Multiple power poles were snapped off at the base. An 18 inch diameter cedar tree was blown over onto a house. Several utility sheds were blown apart.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMunjor-Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 75 mph snapped power poles in town.
August 2010LightningMunjor-Lightning set a couple of hay bales on fire.
August 2007Heavy RainMunjor-Rainfall of 3.62 occurred from 6 to 10 pm CDT.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMunjor-A large tree was blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMunjor-The Munjor elementary school lost its roof. More significant structural damage and tree damage was found in town.
March 2001LightningMunjor-lightning entered into the house trough conduit and wiring. Extensive smoke damage was reported.
July 1998LightningMunjor-Oil tank battery was struck by lightning and caught fire. It took fire fighters 3 1/2 hours to put the fire out.
March 2024HailMunjor-no account filed
May 2021HailMunjor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Toulon3.1 miles14
Hays5.7 miles16
Victoria6.8 miles14
Antonino7.0 miles14
Schoenchen7.6 miles14
Catharine8.4 miles15
Pfeifer8.8 miles14
Yocemento10.7 miles15

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 MunjorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6032784The 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 475292. 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.