Wetmore, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wetmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66550. The Survey maps it on the Wetmore quadrangle. 348 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWetmore fell from 368 to 348 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 | 368 | |
| 2020 | 348 | -20 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Wetmore quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Wetmore between 2007 and 2020, burning about 966 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 | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 525 |
| 4 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Nemaha County | 397 |
| 2 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Nemaha County | 396 |
| 29 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Nemaha County | 16 |
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 222 |
| 8 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 333 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 332 |
| 21 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 414 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wetmore in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 10 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2013 | Hail | Wetmore | - | Estimated quarter size hail reported in Wetmore by public. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Wetmore | - | Report relayed by NSSL. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wetmore | - | Power pole was snapped at the bottom. 12 inch diameter tree limb blown down. An 8 to 10 foot grain bin was blown onto the road. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Wetmore | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Wetmore | - | 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 Wetmore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2404953 | 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 473232. 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.








