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Ramona, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Colfax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67475. The Survey maps it on the Ramona quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,421 feet above sea level.

Ramona within Marion County

Population over time

2 figures

Ramona fell from 187 to 78 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
2010187
202078-109 (-58%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ramona between 2002 and 2020, burning about 84 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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
25 June 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
25 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
26 March 2003Arson/incendiarism50 acresDickinson Countynot named
24 March 2003Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDickinson Countynot named
17 March 2005Debris and open burning10 acresDickinson Countynot named
28 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2
27 February 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramona in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindRamona-This was an estimated gust.
May 2016HailRamona-Via Twitter in Ramona.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Ramona-A brief touchdown was reported.
July 2007HailRamona-A trained spotter reported 1.25 inch hail along with 35 mph winds.|
May 2005Flash FloodRamona-Two miles east of Ramona, intersection of 360th and Sunflower Road washed out.
May 2025HailRamona-no account filed
September 2025HailRamona-no account filed
September 2025HailRamona-no account filed
July 2011HailRamona-no account filed
May 2010HailRamona-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindRamona-no account filed
March 2006HailRamona-no account filed
March 2006HailRamona-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindRamona-no account filed
April 2003HailRamona-no account filed
May 2002HailRamona-no account filed
April 2002HailRamona-no account filed
May 1999HailRamona-no account filed
May 1994HailRamona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Lost Springs5.5 miles15
Tampa5.9 miles18
Pilsen8.8 miles15
Lincolnville9.0 miles12
Durham11.7 miles15
Antelope12.1 miles12
Eastshore14.9 miles15
Canada17.0 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 RamonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2415219The 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 477133. 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.