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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.

Quenemo within Osage County

Population over time

2 figures

Quenemo 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.

YearPeople Change
2010388
2020288-100 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

73 since 2015

Regional 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
20 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2012019
6 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service66
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service127
26 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service132
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service93
5 April 2015Debris and open burning50 acresKansas Forest Service80
4 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2011122

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007FloodQuenemo$500,000Marais des Cygnes river reaches moderate flooding stage with flooding continuing into early July. The river reaches record levels at Quenemo.
July 2007FloodQuenemo$150,000Flooding 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 2007Flash FloodQuenemo$100,000The 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 2003Tornado (F0)Quenemo$15,000A weak tornado touched down briefly and knocked down trees and 2 power poles and damaged an out building.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindQuenemo$1,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindQuenemo-Outbuildings reported to have been destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008HailQuenemo-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 2008HailQuenemo-no account filed
May 2003HailQuenemo-no account filed
May 2003HailQuenemo-no account filed
May 2003HailQuenemo-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindQuenemo-no account filed
May 2003HailQuenemo-no account filed
October 1998Thunderstorm WindQuenemo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Vassar6.9 miles15
Michigan Valley7.0 miles15
Melvern7.7 miles16
Lyndon8.6 miles16
Lyndon Station9.4 miles15
Olivet13.7 miles17
Overbrook13.9 miles15
Ridgeton15.0 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 QuenemoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1757468The 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.