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Nicodemus, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nicodemus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67625. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nicodemus quadrangle. 14 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,982 feet above sea level.

Nicodemus within Graham County

On record in Nicodemus

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Nicodemus in 2015, burning about 6 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
Other causes1

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
24 June 2015Other causes6.0 acresKansas Forest Service015-006

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nicodemus: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kenyon PitFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Graham County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nicodemus in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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
May 2024HailNicodemus-Hail ranged from pea to penny in size.
June 2023HailNicodemus-Spotter reported pea to quarter size hail.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-An inch and a half of rainfall also occurred during by this time.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Reported via Weather Underground, mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 measured a wind gust of 80 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 measured a 65 mph wind gust as the outflow from a nearby storm moved across eastern Graham County followed by a gust of 59 MPH a few minutes later.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 measured a wind gust of 58 mph.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Winds continued to gust for 29 minutes after the initial 88 mph gust at 8:09 pm CDT with a measured gust of 60 mph at 8:38 pm CDT.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Mesonet station reported a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Mesonet station reported a 72 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 reported a 73 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
June 2018Flash FloodNicodemus-The bridge west of Nicodemus was flooded. No damage was reported.
October 2017HailNicodemus-Most of the hail was quarter size. The hail lasted between five and ten minutes. The ground was white with hail.
September 2016FloodNicodemus-Around sunrise campers at Antelope Lake reported flood waters up to the steps of their camper, almost covering the tires. Estimated the water to be at least a foot deep. Roads in southern Norton County, where similar amounts of rain fell, were reported to still covered in water by mid afternoon. Using this report as a proxy, roads in northern Graham County were likely to still be covered by flood waters for a similar period of time. No information was given for estimates of property damage.
June 2014Flash FloodNicodemus-Heavy rainfall from slow moving storms caused a foot of swiftly flowing water to run over the road.
June 2011HailNicodemus-Hail was covering the ground, and strong winds were reported but no estimate of peak wind gust was given.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Wind report relayed by kwch.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindNicodemus-Tree branches up to 3 inches in diameter downed.
July 2018HailNicodemus-no account filed
April 2015HailNicodemus-no account filed
October 2013HailNicodemus-no account filed
June 2005HailNicodemus-no account filed
July 2004HailNicodemus-no account filed
July 2004HailNicodemus-no account filed
June 2003HailNicodemus-no account filed
August 1993HailNicodemus-no account filed
September 1993HailNicodemus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Graham 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
Bogue4.3 miles13
Roscoe10.0 miles13
Hill City12.1 miles14
Smithfield12.6 miles13
Penokee19.1 miles13
Togo19.7 miles13
Morland24.5 miles7
Saint Peter28.7 miles7

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 NicodemusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7028911The 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 472219. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.