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.
Population over time
2 figuresThayer 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 497 | |
| 2020 | 432 | -65 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1945 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Parsons quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Thayer quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
42 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015049 |
| 10 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Neosho County | 57 |
| 28 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150628 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 34 |
| 7 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 32 |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 36 |
| 7 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Neosho County | 20 |
| 7 March 2015 | Smoking | 200 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 150307A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
49 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | $110,000 | The 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | $50,000 | Trees and power lines were downed throughout the community. A tree fell on a house, but no injuries were reported. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | $5,000 | Siding was blown off a house. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted trees. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | $2,000 | A roof was peeled off a mobile home near Morehead. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | $500 | Large trees were uprooted. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Thayer | - | Reported along highway 169. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Thayer | - | Measured amount since midnight of 4.5 inches. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Thayer | - | Measured amount since midnight of 4.75 inches. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | Measured by official measuring equipment. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | The 50 to 60 mph winds occurred along the gust front of the thunderstorms. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Thayer | - | Winds were estimated at 40 to 50 MPH as well. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | Neosho County Emergency Management relayed a citizen's report 50 to 70 mph gusts in Thayer. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Thayer | - | The hail occurred with 40 to 50 mph winds. |
| April 2009 | Flash Flood | Thayer | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Thayer | - | A large amount of penny size hail occurred. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | Small tree limbs were knocked down with three quarter inch hail. |
| September 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Thayer | - | No damage reported. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Thayer | - | Damage? |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | AGTAP NO101. |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | Trees downed. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Thayer | - | Numerous roads across the town were covered by water. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | Large trees blown down. |
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | Ten inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thayer | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Thayer | - | 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.
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 Thayer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2401912 | 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 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.












