Quenemo, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Agency Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66528. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quenemo quadrangle. 288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 945 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresQuenemo fell from 388 to 288 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 | 388 | |
| 2020 | 288 | -100 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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 Burlingame quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Quenemo quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
73 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Quenemo between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,244 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2012019 |
| 6 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 66 |
| 18 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 127 |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 132 |
| 7 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 93 |
| 5 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 80 |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2011122 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quenemo in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flood | Quenemo | $500,000 | Marais des Cygnes river reaches moderate flooding stage with flooding continuing into early July. The river reaches record levels at Quenemo. |
| July 2007 | Flood | Quenemo | $150,000 | Flooding continues into early July. A number of roads continue under water especially around Quenemo. A state report indicated that the flood waters destroyed two houses, caused major damage to 5 and minor damage to 10. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Quenemo | $100,000 | The Hwy 75 bridge was covered by the flooded Salt Creek just south of Lyndon. Numerous roads in the Lyndon and Quenemo areas flooded. KSNT TV reports the fire department has ordered evacuations of residences in low lying areas in Quenemo. 110 mile creek is out of its banks and water if flooding Fairlawn road. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Quenemo | $15,000 | A weak tornado touched down briefly and knocked down trees and 2 power poles and damaged an out building. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quenemo | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quenemo | - | Outbuildings reported to have been destroyed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Quenemo | - | Trained spotter called back several times during the evening. Hail fell for several minutes at his home, with the diameters of most stones around one inch, but several up to one and a half inches in diameter. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Quenemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Quenemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Quenemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Quenemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quenemo | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Quenemo | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quenemo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Michigan Valley | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Melvern | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Lyndon | 8.6 miles | 16 | |
| Lyndon Station | 9.4 miles | 15 | |
| Olivet | 13.7 miles | 17 | |
| Overbrook | 13.9 miles | 15 | |
| Ridgeton | 15.0 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 Quenemo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1757468 | 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 479622. 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.







