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.
Population over time
2 figuresMunjor 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 213 | |
| 2020 | 232 | +19 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1896 USGS Hays quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Hays South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Hays quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1597 |
| 4 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ellis County | 1164 |
| 16 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1169 |
| 15 June 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ellis County | 017-164 |
| 10 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 173 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 141 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 99 |
| 28 March 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 15-0044 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munjor | $4,000 | Eight power poles blown down. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munjor | - | The wind speeds were estimated. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munjor | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munjor | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 75 mph snapped power poles in town. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Munjor | - | Lightning set a couple of hay bales on fire. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Munjor | - | Rainfall of 3.62 occurred from 6 to 10 pm CDT. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munjor | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munjor | - | The Munjor elementary school lost its roof. More significant structural damage and tree damage was found in town. |
| March 2001 | Lightning | Munjor | - | lightning entered into the house trough conduit and wiring. Extensive smoke damage was reported. |
| July 1998 | Lightning | Munjor | - | Oil tank battery was struck by lightning and caught fire. It took fire fighters 3 1/2 hours to put the fire out. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Munjor | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Munjor | - | 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 Munjor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6032784 | 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 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.





