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Westmoreland, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66549. It lies near Mount Ephraim. The Survey maps it on the Westmoreland quadrangle. 740 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Westmoreland within Pottawatomie County

On record in Westmoreland

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Westmoreland fell from 778 to 740 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
2010778
2020740-38 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Westmoreland between 2004 and 2006, burning about 8,000 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
7 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined7,000 acresKansas Forest ServiceKRAUSE
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresKansas Forest ServiceBOOTH CREEK
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresKansas CountiesHOOD GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

60 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westmoreland in 73 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 50 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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
March 2002Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland$7,000Strong winds blew part of the roof off of a trailer home.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland$5,000Winds hit 77 mph at the Jeffrey Energy power plant.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Estimated 70 mph winds, also power out across town.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Wind gust of 60 mph reported, along with pea to nickel sized hail.
September 2023HailWestmoreland-Nickel sized hail reported.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Power outages and 12 to 24 inch tree limbs down.
July 2020HailWestmoreland-Reports of several large hailstones falling, including golf ball and baseball sized hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Estimated wind gust.
October 2014HailWestmoreland-Wind gusts up to 60 mph.
April 2013HailWestmoreland-Nickle to quarter sized hail.
June 2013HailWestmoreland-Report from social media...time estimated from radar.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-A few 4 to 5 inch tree limbs were found broken the next morning. This was a delayed report. Time was estimated from radar and other reports.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-In Westmoreland a couple mailboxes were blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Strong winds caused widespread damage across Pottawatomie County. Large diameter trees ranging from 5 to 20 feet in diameter were snapped.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Spotter estimates winds of 60 to 65 mph.
June 2011HailWestmoreland-Half dollar sized hail collected on the ground.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Trained spotters throughout Pottawatomie County reported 60 to 65 mph wind gusts. In Westmoreland and Onaga 3 to 4 inch tree limbs were broken.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Cottonwood tree blown down over a road west of the town of Westmoreland.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-Garage damage, trees snapped, power lines down
September 1993Tornado (F0)Westmoreland-A small weak tornado hit briefly in an open field.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-A wind gust to 55 kts was reported by weather spotters.
July 2020HailWestmoreland-no account filed
July 2017HailWestmoreland-no account filed
May 2016HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2015HailWestmoreland-no account filed
September 2015HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2014HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2014HailWestmoreland-no account filed
October 2014HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2013HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2013HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2013HailWestmoreland-no account filed
March 2012HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2011HailWestmoreland-no account filed
September 2010HailWestmoreland-no account filed
March 2009HailWestmoreland-no account filed
March 2009HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2006HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2006HailWestmoreland-no account filed
August 2006HailWestmoreland-no account filed
August 2006HailWestmoreland-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWestmoreland-no account filed
March 2003HailWestmoreland-no account filed
March 2003HailWestmoreland-no account filed
June 2003HailWestmoreland-no account filed
July 2003HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2002HailWestmoreland-no account filed
May 2002HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2002HailWestmoreland-no account filed
April 2002HailWestmoreland-no account filed
August 2002HailWestmoreland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Fostoria5.9 miles20
Flush7.0 miles16
Blaine7.1 miles17
Wheaton8.9 miles15
Laclede10.7 miles16
Olsburg11.0 miles20
Louisville11.2 miles16
Duluth13.5 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 WestmorelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q632200The 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 476096. 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.