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Saint Marys, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in St. Marys Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66536. It stands on Willard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Marys quadrangle. 2,759 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Saint Marys within Pottawatomie County

On record in Saint Marys

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Saint Marys grew from 2,627 to 2,759 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
20102,627
20202,759+132 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

35 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Saint Marys between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,504 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service201546
19 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service151
10 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1824
4 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service201525
28 April 2018Debris and open burning46 acresKansas Forest Service1821
28 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service1820
14 April 2015Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service201523
1 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Belvue5.9 miles17
Emmett7.8 miles16
Saint Clere12.1 miles16
Aikins12.2 miles16
Wamego12.4 miles17
Laclede13.2 miles16
Louisville13.5 miles16
Saint George18.5 miles18

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 Saint MarysAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2409169The 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 476443. 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.