Muscotah, Kansas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Grasshopper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66058. It stands on South Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whiting quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMuscotah fell from 176 to 155 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 | 176 | |
| 2020 | 155 | -21 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Whiting quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Muscotah between 2015 and 2020, burning about 229 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015014 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015016 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2015015 |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Jackson County | 26 |
| 14 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018035 |
| 26 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018022 |
| 7 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 January 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2016009 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muscotah in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 13 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Muscotah | $100,000 | An F1 tornado touched down in Northeast Jackson County then tracked northeast through Western Atchison County south of Route 9 to 2 miles northwest of Muscotah. Spotters then tracked the tornado northward along Highway 159 to 2 miles south of Horton in Brown County which is 7 miles north of Muscotah. The tornado was estimated to be traveling at a speed of 40 to 45 MPH. Numerous power lines were reported blown down and two farm outbuilding were destroyed 2 miles northwest of Muscotah. The path of the tornado was based on the track through Atchson County only. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Muscotah | $2,000 | Several homes reported broken windows due to wind driven hail. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muscotah | $2,000 | Numerous large trees and powerlines were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muscotah | $2,000 | Several outbuildings were reported destroyed. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Muscotah | - | Penny size hail was reported at 286th and Edwards. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Muscotah | - | The Delaware River near Muscotah crested at 27.50 feet, or 0.50 feet above flood stage. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Muscotah | - | The Delaware River near Muscotah crested at 28.03 feet, or 1.03 feet above flood stage. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Muscotah | - | Rainfall amounts in excess of 10 inches fell over portions of Atchison county during a 12 hour period, causing extensive flooding on area roads. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Muscotah | - | The flash flood warning issued earlier due to the more than 10 inches of rain that fell, needed to be extended due to the extensive flooding on area roads. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Muscotah | - | The Atchsion County Sheriff's office reported one inch diameter hail during a severe thunderstorm 3 miles southeast of Muscotah. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Muscotah | - | The Atchison County Sherrif's office reported dime-size hail at Muscotah. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muscotah | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a 60 MPH wind gust in Muscotah. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muscotah | - | A severe thunderstorm moved through Atchison County. 60 mph winds were observed at Muscotah and trees were down in Atchison and in Effingham. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Muscotah | - | Dime-size hail was reported near Muscotah and Lancaster. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Muscotah | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Muscotah | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Muscotah | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Muscotah | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Muscotah | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Muscotah | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Muscotah | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Muscotah | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrington | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| Kennekuk | 6.4 miles | 20 | |
| Effingham | 6.7 miles | 20 | |
| Larkinburg | 6.7 miles | 18 | |
| Monrovia | 9.5 miles | 20 | |
| Huron | 10.8 miles | 20 | |
| Farmington | 11.5 miles | 20 | |
| Lancaster | 11.7 miles | 20 |
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 Muscotah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2115827 | 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 473463. 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.








