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.
Population over time
2 figuresRamona 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 187 | |
| 2020 | 78 | -109 (-58%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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 Abilene quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Abilene quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Salina quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 25 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 26 March 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 24 March 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 17 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Dickinson County | not named |
| 28 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 27 February 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | This was an estimated gust. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ramona | - | Via Twitter in Ramona. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Ramona | - | A brief touchdown was reported. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Ramona | - | A trained spotter reported 1.25 inch hail along with 35 mph winds.| |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Ramona | - | Two miles east of Ramona, intersection of 360th and Sunflower Road washed out. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Ramona | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Springs | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Tampa | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Pilsen | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lincolnville | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Durham | 11.7 miles | 15 | |
| Antelope | 12.1 miles | 12 | |
| Eastshore | 14.9 miles | 15 | |
| Canada | 17.0 miles | 15 |
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 Ramona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2415219 | 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 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.






