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Tyro, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Caney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67364. It lies near Stony Point. The Survey maps it on the Tyro quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Tyro within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Tyro fell from 220 to 177 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
2010220
2020177-43 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

56 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Tyro between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,623 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1570064
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service1530033
16 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMontgomery County1730026
14 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1820133
10 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1470095
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1870062
4 April 2015Other causes20 acresKansas Forest Service1520057

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tyro in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
August 2003LightningTyro$100,000A home improvement store, specializing in surplus building supplies, light fixtures, carpet, and bulk items, was destroyed. Damage estimate is a rough approximation.
March 1993HailTyro$5,000A thunderstorm dropped 0.75-inch hail briefly south of Independence. Little damage resulted.
June 2008FloodTyro$100Highway 166 at County Road 2800 was closed due to high water. Other county roads in the area were also flooded.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTyro-A semi truck was blown over on Highway 166 according to KGGF Radio.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindTyro-This wind gust was estimated.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindTyro-A tree was uprooted and laid over onto a house via a picture sent via Facebook. There was a trained spotter who estimated winds of 60 mph.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTyro-Winds gusts were estimated around 70 mph.
May 2024HailTyro-Tennis ball sized hail was reported.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindTyro-Report from a trained spotter of wind gusts up to 60 mph.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindTyro-Report from a trained spotter of wind gusts up to 60 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTyro-Trained spotter reported an estimated wind gust of 65 mph.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTyro-Reports of 2 to 3 inch tree limbs down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindTyro-Spotter estimates wind gusts of 60 mph or higher. Several small tree limbs were reported down. Hail just below dime size occurred as well.
November 2020HailTyro-Hail covered the ground and was accompanied by 60 mph winds.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindTyro-Winds were accompanied by quarter sized hail which covered the ground.
September 2012HailTyro-The Large hail occurred with winds estimated up to 70 mph.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindTyro-Winds were estimated up to 70 mph. Hail estimated up to hen egg size occured with the winds.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindTyro-Occurred along with quarter size hail.
February 2011HailTyro-Occurred along with estimated 60 mph winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindTyro-Minor damage to trees. Four inch diameter limbs were downed across the community.
April 2026HailTyro-no account filed
May 2024HailTyro-no account filed
April 2024HailTyro-no account filed
November 2021HailTyro-no account filed
April 2012HailTyro-no account filed
August 2009HailTyro-no account filed
May 2008HailTyro-no account filed
October 2007HailTyro-no account filed
March 2006HailTyro-no account filed
April 2003HailTyro-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindTyro-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindTyro-no account filed
May 1998HailTyro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Dearing5.9 miles17
Jefferson6.0 miles17
Caney6.3 miles18
Owen6.4 miles17
Wayside6.6 miles17
Havana7.4 miles18
West Coffeyville8.0 miles17
Bolton8.2 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 TyroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2673315The 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 469235. 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.