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Paxico, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Newbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66526. It stands on Snokomo Creek. The Survey maps it on the McFarland quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Paxico within Wabaunsee County

On record in Paxico

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Paxico fell from 221 to 210 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
2010221
2020210-11 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

28 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Paxico between 2009 and 2020, burning about 1,388 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1

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
18 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWabaunsee County52
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service60
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service59
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service58
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service55
28 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWabaunsee County43
21 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKansas Forest Service467
17 June 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service466

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wabaunsee County

Storms near this place

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paxico in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 19 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindPaxico2 hurt, $500,000Winds estimated to at least 70 mph caused widespread damage across the county. A couple near Paxico was briefly trapped in their mobile home when it was detached from its cables and flipped over. The uninsured mobile home was destroyed. The couple was treated for minor injuries at a hospital. Other damage to trees, power lines and roofs was common. Many crops were severely damaged in the storm.
June 2005Flash FloodPaxico$100,000Over 6 inches of fast flowing water over highway 18 and over several county roads.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPaxico$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a junior high school.
June 1999LightningPaxico$3,000Two bolts of lightning struck a 2 story farm house igniting a fire that heavily damaged the structure.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindPaxico$2,000no account filed
March 2017Tornado (EF0)Paxico-A visual confirmation of a tornado was reported |approximately 1 mile west of Paxico slightly north of Interstate 70. |This tornado proceeded to remove a barn roof on the northeast side of |Paxico. Time estimated based on radar data.
October 2017HailPaxico-The report was delayed via social media.
April 2016FloodPaxico-Evacuations of Mill Creek campground are underway due to flooding along Mill Creek.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindPaxico-A couple two to three inch diameter tree branches reported to have been blown down by the 60 mph winds.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindPaxico-Relayed report from the public that tin sections of an outbuilding were carried a couple miles to the east by strong severe thunderstorm winds. Barbed wire fences were also knocked down.
June 2006HailPaxico-Reported as large marble size hail.
August 2004Flash FloodPaxico-Heavy rains produced flash flooding in northeast Wabaunsee county. Several roads were under water for a time. Water was also reported flowing out of drainage ditches and over a few roads.
September 2010HailPaxico-no account filed
June 2008HailPaxico-no account filed
October 2007HailPaxico-no account filed
October 2007HailPaxico-no account filed
June 2005HailPaxico-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
June 2003HailPaxico-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
May 2002HailPaxico-no account filed
June 2002HailPaxico-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
September 2002HailPaxico-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
May 2000HailPaxico-no account filed
May 2000HailPaxico-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
April 1999HailPaxico-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindPaxico-no account filed
June 1995HailPaxico-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabaunsee 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
Newbury1.2 miles16
Vera3.8 miles16
McFarland4.0 miles16
Maple Hill7.4 miles16
Alma7.5 miles16
Allendorph7.7 miles16
Keene10.3 miles16
Wabaunsee10.9 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 PaxicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1988237The 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 476610. 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.