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.
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
Nicodemus Historic District; Nicodemus National Historic SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1976
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1893 USGS Hill quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1893 USGS Hill City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Nicodemus quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Plainville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2015Regional 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 causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 June 2015 | Other causes | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 015-006 |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenyon Pit | Flagstone | Producer |
Storms near this place
26 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | Hail ranged from pea to penny in size. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | Spotter reported pea to quarter size hail. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | An inch and a half of rainfall also occurred during by this time. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | Reported via Weather Underground, mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 measured a wind gust of 80 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | Mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 measured a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | Mesonet station reported a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | Mesonet station reported a 72 mph thunderstorm wind gust at location. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | Mesonet station KKSBOGUE1 reported a 73 mph thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Nicodemus | - | The bridge west of Nicodemus was flooded. No damage was reported. |
| October 2017 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | Most of the hail was quarter size. The hail lasted between five and ten minutes. The ground was white with hail. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Nicodemus | - | 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Nicodemus | - | Heavy rainfall from slow moving storms caused a foot of swiftly flowing water to run over the road. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | Hail was covering the ground, and strong winds were reported but no estimate of peak wind gust was given. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | Wind report relayed by kwch. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nicodemus | - | Tree branches up to 3 inches in diameter downed. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Nicodemus | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogue | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Roscoe | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hill City | 12.1 miles | 14 | |
| Smithfield | 12.6 miles | 13 | |
| Penokee | 19.1 miles | 13 | |
| Togo | 19.7 miles | 13 | |
| Morland | 24.5 miles | 7 | |
| Saint Peter | 28.7 miles | 7 |
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 Nicodemus | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7028911 | 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 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.





