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Osawatomie, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Osawatomie City. It lies in ZIP code area 66064. It stands on Plum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Osawatomie quadrangle. 4,255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Osawatomie within Miami County

On record in Osawatomie

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Osawatomie fell from 4,447 to 4,255 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
20104,447
20204,255-192 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

76 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Osawatomie between 2015 and 2020, burning about 370 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service236
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service235
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service181
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service179
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service210
14 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service163
5 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresKansas Forest Service133

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Storms near this place

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osawatomie in 55 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 28 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 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
April 2026HailOsawatomie$50,000Several social media photos and videos of hail up to tennis ball size in Osawatomie. Multiple homes and vehicles were damaged, with many windows and windshields cracked or broken from the hail.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie$2,000Law enforcement reported wind damage with several large trees down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie$2,000Several large tree limbs were downed across Osawatomie, causing power outages.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie$1,000Power lines down on 6th Street due to strong winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie$1,000Miami county sheriff reported power lines were downed in Osawatomie.
April 2026HailOsawatomie-Ping pong ball sized hail.
April 2025HailOsawatomie-Quarter sized hail reported in Osawatomie.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-A tree fell onto and damaged a house. Time estimated from radar.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-Social media report of a tree downed on top of a vehicle.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-Social media report of a tree downed on top of a vehicle.
May 2023HailOsawatomie-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported in Osawatomie.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-Estimated wind gusts up to 60 mph were estimated in Osawatomie.
May 2019Flash FloodOsawatomie-Water was over the roads and flowing into some homes. The amount of property damage is unknown at this time.
September 2016FloodOsawatomie-A road was washed out at 351st and Lonestar Road. It's unclear what time the road washed out, but it was closed for a portion of the night. Damages are also unknown.
July 2015HailOsawatomie-Quarter size hail reported at 7 Highway and US 169.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-Eight to ten inch tree limbs blown down.
June 2013Flash FloodOsawatomie-High water was reported neat 7th Street and Main Street in Osawatomie, due to very heavy rains. It was reported too deep for small cars to go through.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-Several trees were reported blown over on roads near Osawatomie. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
April 2010Flash FloodOsawatomie-Plum Creek Road and 335th Street, were closed due to flowing water over the road.
June 2007Flash FloodOsawatomie-Barricades put up due to flooding over PLum Creek Road.
June 2007Flash FloodOsawatomie-Heavy rains caused 319th Street and Osawatomie, along with 303 Street and Rogers, to be closed due to flooding.
May 2007Flash FloodOsawatomie-Several roads in Osawatomie had flooding due to the heavy rains.
June 2007FloodOsawatomie-The Marais Des Cygnes River at Osawatomie began flooding on June 28, 2007 and continued through July 5, 2007. The crest was on July 2, 2007 and is detailed in the July 2007 Storm Data Report.
June 2005Flash FloodOsawatomie-Two to three mile stretch of K-7 south of 169 under water. Numerous low water spots on Osawatomie Road under water.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds in Osawatomie.
June 2000Flash FloodOsawatomie-Several roads were closed due to high water.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-Law enforcement officials reported 70 mph wind gusts.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-The Miami County Sheriff's Office reported a 70 MPH wind gust during a severe thunderstorm at Osawatomie.
May 1997HailOsawatomie-A severe weather spotter reported golfball-size hail near Osawatomie during a slow moving super cell severe thunderstorm.
July 1995HailOsawatomie-Golf ball-size hail was reported in Oswatomie.
May 2020HailOsawatomie-no account filed
August 2015HailOsawatomie-no account filed
June 2013HailOsawatomie-no account filed
March 2012HailOsawatomie-no account filed
February 2011HailOsawatomie-no account filed
February 2011HailOsawatomie-no account filed
February 2009Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-no account filed
March 2007HailOsawatomie-no account filed
March 2006HailOsawatomie-no account filed
March 2006HailOsawatomie-no account filed
March 2006HailOsawatomie-no account filed
March 2006HailOsawatomie-no account filed
June 2005HailOsawatomie-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-no account filed
March 2003HailOsawatomie-no account filed
May 2003HailOsawatomie-no account filed
May 2003HailOsawatomie-no account filed
May 2003HailOsawatomie-no account filed
May 2003HailOsawatomie-no account filed
May 2002HailOsawatomie-no account filed
September 2001HailOsawatomie-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOsawatomie-no account filed
August 2000HailOsawatomie-no account filed
May 1999HailOsawatomie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Ringer3.4 miles17
O'Brien4.3 miles17
Henson4.5 miles17
Beagle5.5 miles15
Stanton6.4 miles17
Paola6.4 miles17
Block7.6 miles17
Fontana7.7 miles15

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 OsawatomieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2602955The 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 479709. 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.