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.
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
Paxico Historic Districtlisted 1998
Snokomo Schoollisted 1995- Paxico Rural High Schoollisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresPaxico 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 221 | |
| 2020 | 210 | -11 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1889 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Mc Farland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 2009Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wabaunsee County | 52 |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 60 |
| 4 July 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 59 |
| 3 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 58 |
| 7 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 55 |
| 28 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wabaunsee County | 43 |
| 21 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 467 |
| 17 June 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 466 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | 2 hurt, $500,000 | Winds 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Paxico | $100,000 | Over 6 inches of fast flowing water over highway 18 and over several county roads. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a junior high school. |
| June 1999 | Lightning | Paxico | $3,000 | Two bolts of lightning struck a 2 story farm house igniting a fire that heavily damaged the structure. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Tornado (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 2017 | Hail | Paxico | - | The report was delayed via social media. |
| April 2016 | Flood | Paxico | - | Evacuations of Mill Creek campground are underway due to flooding along Mill Creek. |
| October 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | A couple two to three inch diameter tree branches reported to have been blown down by the 60 mph winds. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | 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 2006 | Hail | Paxico | - | Reported as large marble size hail. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Paxico | - | 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 2010 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paxico | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Paxico | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newbury | 1.2 miles | 16 | |
| Vera | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| McFarland | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Maple Hill | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| Alma | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Allendorph | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Keene | 10.3 miles | 16 | |
| Wabaunsee | 10.9 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 Paxico | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1988237 | 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 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.







