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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.

Vermillion within Marshall County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Vermillion 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.

YearPeople Change
2010112
202076-36 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

3 since 2016

Regional 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service3
19 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service1
30 January 2016Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service160001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

13 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindVermillion-Personal weather station measured 58 mph gust.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindVermillion-Widespread damage near Vermillion with outbuildings damaged, trees down, and power lines down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindVermillion-Personal weather station measured wind gust of 77 mph.
June 2020Tornado (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 2014Thunderstorm WindVermillion-Wind caused damage to outbuildings.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindVermillion-Winds estimated.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindVermillion-A trained spotter near Baileyville reported 65 mph winds.
June 2019HailVermillion-no account filed
June 2019HailVermillion-no account filed
June 2019HailVermillion-no account filed
April 2014HailVermillion-no account filed
April 2014HailVermillion-no account filed
April 2012HailVermillion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Vliets3.6 miles16
Sullivan6.1 miles16
Lillis7.7 miles15
Frankfort8.1 miles14
Axtell10.5 miles15
Nolan10.6 miles15
Winifred11.9 miles14
Beattie12.7 miles14

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 VermillionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2661194The 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.