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.
Population over time
2 figuresOlmitz 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 90 | -24 (-21%) |
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.
- 1896 USGS Russell quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Great Bend quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Olmitz quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Russell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2016Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Barton County | 2017034 |
| 11 October 2016 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 101116 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | $360,000 | Damaging 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 2000 | Hail | Olmitz | $250,000 | Damage included broken windows (to both buildings and vehicles), siding, and roofs. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | $20,000 | A 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 2014 | Flood | Olmitz | $7,500 | Northwest 150th Road between Northwest 70th Avenue & Northwest 60th Avenue was flooded. |
| August 2023 | Heavy Rain | Olmitz | - | Rainfall total for the past 24 hours of 2 inches. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Olmitz | - | A Cocorahs observer reported 1.58 inches. |
| September 2021 | Heavy Rain | Olmitz | - | A Cocorahs station reported 3.00 inches of heavy rainfall. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Olmitz | - | A storm chaser reported the hail through social media, on Twitter. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | - | Reported by a trained spotter. |
| July 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Olmitz | - | A brief cone tornado was reported and verified via Twitter. |
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Olmitz | - | The tornado touched down briefly in an open field. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Olmitz | - | The tornado touched down briefly in an open field. |
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Olmitz | - | A brief tornado touchdown in open country. No damage was reported. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Olmitz | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olmitz | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyd | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Albert | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Heizer | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Hoisington | 8.4 miles | 13 | |
| South Hoisington | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Galatia | 8.7 miles | 13 | |
| Millard | 8.8 miles | 13 | |
| Kanbrick | 9.0 miles | 17 |
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 Olmitz | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2519947 | 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 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.





