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.
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.
Pottawatomie Indian Pay Stationlisted 1972 · 0.5 miles away- Verschelden Funeral Homelisted 2025 · 0.3 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSaint 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,627 | |
| 2020 | 2,759 | +132 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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 Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
35 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 201546 |
| 19 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 151 |
| 10 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1824 |
| 4 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201525 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1821 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1820 |
| 14 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 201523 |
| 1 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belvue | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Emmett | 7.8 miles | 16 | |
| Saint Clere | 12.1 miles | 16 | |
| Aikins | 12.2 miles | 16 | |
| Wamego | 12.4 miles | 17 | |
| Laclede | 13.2 miles | 16 | |
| Louisville | 13.5 miles | 16 | |
| Saint George | 18.5 miles | 18 |
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 Marys | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2409169 | 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 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.







