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.
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
German Evangelical Churchlisted 2018
John McKimmons Barnlisted 2010
Pottawatomie County Courthouselisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresWestmoreland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 778 | |
| 2020 | 740 | -38 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1889 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wamego quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Westmoreland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7,000 acres | Kansas Forest Service | KRAUSE |
| 3 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Kansas Forest Service | BOOTH CREEK |
| 15 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 800 acres | Kansas Counties | HOOD GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 73 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | $7,000 | Strong winds blew part of the roof off of a trailer home. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | $5,000 | Winds hit 77 mph at the Jeffrey Energy power plant. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Estimated 70 mph winds, also power out across town. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Wind gust of 60 mph reported, along with pea to nickel sized hail. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Power outages and 12 to 24 inch tree limbs down. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | Reports of several large hailstones falling, including golf ball and baseball sized hail. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | Wind gusts up to 60 mph. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | Nickle to quarter sized hail. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | Report from social media...time estimated from radar. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | In Westmoreland a couple mailboxes were blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Strong winds caused widespread damage across Pottawatomie County. Large diameter trees ranging from 5 to 20 feet in diameter were snapped. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Spotter estimates winds of 60 to 65 mph. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | Half dollar sized hail collected on the ground. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Cottonwood tree blown down over a road west of the town of Westmoreland. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | Garage damage, trees snapped, power lines down |
| September 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Westmoreland | - | A small weak tornado hit briefly in an open field. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | A wind gust to 55 kts was reported by weather spotters. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| October 2014 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Westmoreland | - | 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 Westmoreland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q632200 | 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 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.







