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.
Population over time
2 figuresTyro 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 220 | |
| 2020 | 177 | -43 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 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 Independence quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Tyro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Coffeyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
56 since 2006Regional 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/undetermined | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1570064 |
| 23 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1530033 |
| 16 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Montgomery County | 1730026 |
| 14 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1820133 |
| 10 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1470095 |
| 9 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1870062 |
| 4 April 2015 | Other causes | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1520057 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Lightning | Tyro | $100,000 | A home improvement store, specializing in surplus building supplies, light fixtures, carpet, and bulk items, was destroyed. Damage estimate is a rough approximation. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Tyro | $5,000 | A thunderstorm dropped 0.75-inch hail briefly south of Independence. Little damage resulted. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Tyro | $100 | Highway 166 at County Road 2800 was closed due to high water. Other county roads in the area were also flooded. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | A semi truck was blown over on Highway 166 according to KGGF Radio. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | This wind gust was estimated. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Winds gusts were estimated around 70 mph. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Tyro | - | Tennis ball sized hail was reported. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Report from a trained spotter of wind gusts up to 60 mph. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Report from a trained spotter of wind gusts up to 60 mph. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Trained spotter reported an estimated wind gust of 65 mph. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Reports of 2 to 3 inch tree limbs down. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Tyro | - | Hail covered the ground and was accompanied by 60 mph winds. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Winds were accompanied by quarter sized hail which covered the ground. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Tyro | - | The Large hail occurred with winds estimated up to 70 mph. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Winds were estimated up to 70 mph. Hail estimated up to hen egg size occured with the winds. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Occurred along with quarter size hail. |
| February 2011 | Hail | Tyro | - | Occurred along with estimated 60 mph winds. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | Minor damage to trees. Four inch diameter limbs were downed across the community. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| November 2021 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tyro | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Tyro | - | 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 Tyro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2673315 | 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 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.










