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Thayer, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Chetopa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66776. The Survey maps it on the Thayer quadrangle. 432 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Thayer within Neosho County

Population over time

2 figures

Thayer fell from 497 to 432 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
2010497
2020432-65 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

42 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Thayer between 2015 and 2020, burning about 712 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1

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
22 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015049
10 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNeosho County57
28 June 2015Arson/incendiarism30 acresKansas Forest Service150628
7 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service34
7 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKansas Forest Service32
12 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresKansas Forest Service36
7 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNeosho County20
7 March 2015Smoking200 acresKansas Forest Service150307A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Neosho County

Storms near this place

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thayer in 49 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 24 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindThayer$110,000The towns of Thayer and Galesburg were hit hard by damaging winds estimated at 70 mph. Numerous large trees were blown down across both towns, with some falling on houses and outbuildings. A few businesses in Thayer had portions of their roofs blown off. A few mobile homes in rural areas were rolled over with grains bins lifted off their foundations and thrown into the road.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindThayer$50,000Trees and power lines were downed throughout the community. A tree fell on a house, but no injuries were reported.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindThayer$15,000no account filed
August 2009Thunderstorm WindThayer$5,000Siding was blown off a house.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindThayer$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted trees.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindThayer$2,000A roof was peeled off a mobile home near Morehead.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindThayer$500Large trees were uprooted.
May 2020HailThayer-Reported along highway 169.
May 2020Heavy RainThayer-Measured amount since midnight of 4.5 inches.
May 2020Heavy RainThayer-Measured amount since midnight of 4.75 inches.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindThayer-Measured by official measuring equipment.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindThayer-The 50 to 60 mph winds occurred along the gust front of the thunderstorms.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindThayer-Estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported.
October 2014HailThayer-Winds were estimated at 40 to 50 MPH as well.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindThayer-Neosho County Emergency Management relayed a citizen's report 50 to 70 mph gusts in Thayer.
June 2011HailThayer-The hail occurred with 40 to 50 mph winds.
April 2009Flash FloodThayer-Numerous slow moving thunderstorms produced torrential rainfall during the afternoon and early evening hours on the 27th across much of Neosho county. Widespread 3 to 5 inch rainfall amounts likely occurred per radar estimates, producing several rural and city road closures due to high water. Thayer measured 4 inches of rainfall, with quite a bit of street flooding. Unfortunately, property and crop damage estimates are unknown.
April 2008HailThayer-A large amount of penny size hail occurred.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindThayer-Small tree limbs were knocked down with three quarter inch hail.
September 2005Tornado (F0)Thayer-No damage reported.
September 2005HailThayer-Damage?
August 2005Thunderstorm WindThayer-AGTAP NO101.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindThayer-Trees downed.
May 2002Flash FloodThayer-Numerous roads across the town were covered by water.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindThayer-Large trees blown down.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindThayer-Ten inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
April 2026HailThayer-no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
May 2018HailThayer-no account filed
April 2015HailThayer-no account filed
May 2013HailThayer-no account filed
June 2011HailThayer-no account filed
May 2011HailThayer-no account filed
May 2011HailThayer-no account filed
January 2008HailThayer-no account filed
October 2007Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
April 2005HailThayer-no account filed
May 2005HailThayer-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
May 2002HailThayer-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
May 1999HailThayer-no account filed
May 1998HailThayer-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
June 1996HailThayer-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindThayer-no account filed
May 1995HailThayer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Neosho 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
Urbana5.8 miles20
Galesburg6.1 miles19
Earlton6.6 miles20
Morehead7.8 miles17
Shaw11.1 miles19
Rollin11.5 miles19
Hayden12.0 miles19
Chanute12.9 miles20

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 ThayerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2401912The 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 469679. 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.