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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.

Wetmore within Nemaha County

Population over time

2 figures

Wetmore 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.

YearPeople Change
2010368
2020348-20 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

14 since 2007

Regional 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6

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
18 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKansas Forest Service525
4 August 2017Debris and open burning160 acresNemaha County397
2 August 2017Debris and open burning160 acresNemaha County396
29 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNemaha County16
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service222
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKansas Forest Service333
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKansas Forest Service332
21 March 2018Debris and open burning63 acresKansas Forest Service414

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2013HailWetmore-Estimated quarter size hail reported in Wetmore by public.
July 2006HailWetmore-Report relayed by NSSL.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWetmore-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 2015HailWetmore-no account filed
June 2011HailWetmore-no account filed
March 2009HailWetmore-no account filed
April 2005HailWetmore-no account filed
May 1999HailWetmore-no account filed
June 1998HailWetmore-no account filed
June 1996HailWetmore-no account filed
April 1995HailWetmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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
Bancroft5.0 miles17
Ontario5.9 miles17
Granada6.1 miles17
Goff6.7 miles17
Capioma9.9 miles17
Woodlawn10.7 miles17
Corning11.7 miles14
America City12.4 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 WetmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2404953The 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.