Vermillion, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Noble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66544. The Survey maps it on the Vermillion quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,234 feet above sea level.
On record in Vermillion
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 1 record
- Vermillion United Methodist Churchlisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresVermillion fell from 112 to 76 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 | 112 | |
| 2020 | 76 | -36 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Vermillion quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Vermillion between 2016 and 2018, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 3 |
| 19 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
| 30 January 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 160001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vermillion in 13 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vermillion | - | Personal weather station measured 58 mph gust. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vermillion | - | Widespread damage near Vermillion with outbuildings damaged, trees down, and power lines down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vermillion | - | Personal weather station measured wind gust of 77 mph. |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Vermillion | - | A brief dust whirl was seen under a condensation funnel that appeared like a needle or rope. No damage was documented so the rating will be entered as EFU. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vermillion | - | Wind caused damage to outbuildings. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vermillion | - | Winds estimated. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vermillion | - | A trained spotter near Baileyville reported 65 mph winds. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Vermillion | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Vermillion | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Vermillion | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Vermillion | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Vermillion | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Vermillion | - | 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 Vermillion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2661194 | 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 473204. 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.






