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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.

Muscotah within Atchison County

Population over time

2 figures

Muscotah 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.

YearPeople Change
2010176
2020155-21 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

8 since 2015

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015014
7 March 2015Debris and open burning160 acresKansas Forest Service2015016
7 March 2015Debris and open burning25 acresKansas Forest Service2015015
20 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresJackson County26
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018035
26 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKansas Forest Service2018022
7 October 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
30 January 2016Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service2016009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1997Tornado (F1)Muscotah$100,000An 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 2011HailMuscotah$2,000Several homes reported broken windows due to wind driven hail.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMuscotah$2,000Numerous large trees and powerlines were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMuscotah$2,000Several outbuildings were reported destroyed. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2012HailMuscotah-Penny size hail was reported at 286th and Edwards.
May 2008FloodMuscotah-The Delaware River near Muscotah crested at 27.50 feet, or 0.50 feet above flood stage.
May 2007FloodMuscotah-The Delaware River near Muscotah crested at 28.03 feet, or 1.03 feet above flood stage.
June 2001Flash FloodMuscotah-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 2001Flash FloodMuscotah-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 1998HailMuscotah-The Atchsion County Sheriff's office reported one inch diameter hail during a severe thunderstorm 3 miles southeast of Muscotah.
July 1997HailMuscotah-The Atchison County Sherrif's office reported dime-size hail at Muscotah.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMuscotah-A severe thunderstorm produced a 60 MPH wind gust in Muscotah.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMuscotah-A severe thunderstorm moved through Atchison County. 60 mph winds were observed at Muscotah and trees were down in Atchison and in Effingham.
July 1995HailMuscotah-Dime-size hail was reported near Muscotah and Lancaster.
May 2022HailMuscotah-no account filed
April 2017HailMuscotah-no account filed
April 2016HailMuscotah-no account filed
May 2011HailMuscotah-no account filed
September 2007HailMuscotah-no account filed
March 2006HailMuscotah-no account filed
April 2005HailMuscotah-no account filed
April 2005HailMuscotah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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
Arrington6.3 miles18
Kennekuk6.4 miles20
Effingham6.7 miles20
Larkinburg6.7 miles18
Monrovia9.5 miles20
Huron10.8 miles20
Farmington11.5 miles20
Lancaster11.7 miles20

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 MuscotahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2115827The 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.