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Wilmore, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Powell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67155. The Survey maps it on the Wilmore quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,024 feet above sea level.

Wilmore within Comanche County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilmore fell from 53 to 37 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
201053
202037-16 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Wilmore between 2015 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use80 acresComanche County2017053
26 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2017Naturalunder an acreComanche County2017043
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015040
29 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2015039
28 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Service2015036
17 July 2015Natural1.0 acresKansas Forest Service2015033
13 May 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018028

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

60 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmore in 73 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 45 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 4 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
December 2016Tornado (EF0)Wilmore$85,000This QLCS tornado overturned an irrigation sprinkler.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindWilmore$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew out the side of a barn and the tin roofs of a grainery and a carport.
August 2025Flash FloodWilmore-The emergency manager reports continued flooding along Road 17 between Avenue D and the Kiowa County border.
September 2025HailWilmore-An emergency manager reported 2.75 inch hail.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Reported through Mping.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Trees uprooted or snapped.
December 2022HailWilmore-Report was received by social media.
October 2016Heavy RainWilmore-Rainfall of 3.25 inches was reported.
November 2015Tornado (EF1)Wilmore-This was the second tornado from the parent supercell thunderstorm. This tornado broke large branches from trees and took down a 1/4 mile stretch of power poles.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWilmore-A wet macroburst took down a half mile stretch of power poles. Numerous trees were heavily damaged in the northwest part of the county as well.
June 2014FloodWilmore-Mule creek was flooded, along with several county roads.
June 2014FloodWilmore-Water was over one bridge in Wilmore.
July 2014Heavy RainWilmore-Rainfall of 3.50 was reported.
July 2014FloodWilmore-Law enforcement reported water covering the road about 1/2 mile north of Wilmore as the result of runoff from heavy rainfall.
July 2014FloodWilmore-Water was covering several roads as Mule Creek overflowed it's banks.
July 2014Heavy RainWilmore-Rainfall of 3.25 inches fell during the 24 hour period.
May 2013HailWilmore-There was also 70 MPH winds at this location.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWilmore-There was also 1 inch diameter hail with the wind.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Four inch diameter tree limbs were broken by the high wind.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Six inch diameter tree branches were broken by the high wind.
April 2013HailWilmore-Pea to penny sized hail covered the ground.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Wilmore-This tornado damaged trees, power lines and a barn. It moved into Barber county at 16:12 PM CDT.
August 2010Heavy RainWilmore-Rainfall of 4.21 was observed.
June 2010HailWilmore-The hail was mostly smaller than 3/4 but was accompanied by strong winds.
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Wilmore-This tornado was just south of the Comanche/Kiowa county line as it first moved east and then southeast. Towards the end it caused damage to a farm. A roof was blown off a lean-to, tin was stripped of a barn and a central air unit was removed from a house and destroyed.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWilmore-A trained spotter indicated the winds were around 60 mph.
April 2008Heavy RainWilmore-Rainfall of 2.48 inches was observed. The rainfall rate during the event was as much as 7 inches per hour.
April 2008HailWilmore-The observer also had 34 mph winds recorded on his weather station.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWilmore-Some hail occurred but the size was unknown.
September 2007HailWilmore-The hail was just under nickel sized.
July 1999Heavy RainWilmore-Four and one half inches of rain in a few hours.
April 2023HailWilmore-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWilmore-no account filed
June 2019HailWilmore-no account filed
June 2019HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2018HailWilmore-no account filed
June 2017HailWilmore-no account filed
April 2015HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2013HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2013HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2013HailWilmore-no account filed
April 2013HailWilmore-no account filed
April 2013HailWilmore-no account filed
April 2013HailWilmore-no account filed
April 2012HailWilmore-no account filed
April 2012HailWilmore-no account filed
August 2011HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2011HailWilmore-no account filed
September 2011HailWilmore-no account filed
July 2009HailWilmore-no account filed
July 2009HailWilmore-no account filed
June 2008HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2008HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2008HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2008HailWilmore-no account filed
April 2008HailWilmore-no account filed
May 2006HailWilmore-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWilmore-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWilmore-no account filed
August 2002HailWilmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Coldwater7.7 miles13
Buttermilk17.2 miles13
Protection17.2 miles13

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 WilmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q605637The 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 470741. 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.