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Olmitz, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67564. The Survey maps it on the Olmitz quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,014 feet above sea level.

Olmitz within Barton County

Population over time

2 figures

Olmitz fell from 114 to 90 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
2010114
202090-24 (-21%)

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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Olmitz between 2016 and 2017, burning about 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
20 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresBarton County2017034
11 October 2016Natural2.0 acresKansas Forest Service101116

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Storms near this place

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olmitz in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindOlmitz$360,000Damaging winds knocked down 23 power poles along Kansas Highway 4 just to the north of Olmitz and Bison. This knocked out power to six small towns in the area. Kansas Highway 4 was closed for a short time because of the damage and power remained out for almost 12 hours.
June 2000HailOlmitz$250,000Damage included broken windows (to both buildings and vehicles), siding, and roofs.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOlmitz$20,000A total of 29 power poles and their associated power lines blown down along Highway K-4 from 2 miles north of Olmitz west to the Rush County line. In Olmitz, power lines were also blown down as was a carport. (Narrative courtesy of Great Bend Tribune.)
May 2014FloodOlmitz$7,500Northwest 150th Road between Northwest 70th Avenue & Northwest 60th Avenue was flooded.
August 2023Heavy RainOlmitz-Rainfall total for the past 24 hours of 2 inches.
July 2022Heavy RainOlmitz-A Cocorahs observer reported 1.58 inches.
September 2021Heavy RainOlmitz-A Cocorahs station reported 3.00 inches of heavy rainfall.
May 2018HailOlmitz-A storm chaser reported the hail through social media, on Twitter.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOlmitz-Reported by a trained spotter.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Olmitz-A brief cone tornado was reported and verified via Twitter.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Olmitz-The tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Olmitz-The tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Olmitz-A brief tornado touchdown in open country. No damage was reported.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Olmitz-Brief touchdown in open country.
May 2016HailOlmitz-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindOlmitz-no account filed
June 2008HailOlmitz-no account filed
May 2007HailOlmitz-no account filed
May 2007HailOlmitz-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindOlmitz-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOlmitz-no account filed
May 2003HailOlmitz-no account filed
May 2003HailOlmitz-no account filed
April 2001HailOlmitz-no account filed
April 2001HailOlmitz-no account filed
April 2001HailOlmitz-no account filed
June 1998HailOlmitz-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOlmitz-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOlmitz-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barton 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
Boyd4.7 miles13
Albert5.9 miles15
Heizer7.0 miles15
Hoisington8.4 miles13
South Hoisington8.6 miles13
Galatia8.7 miles13
Millard8.8 miles13
Kanbrick9.0 miles17

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 OlmitzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2519947The 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 475502. 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.