BlockHaskell County, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover 3 settlements here.
What the record shows
- 29 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
- The Geographic Names Information System records 3 populated places in this county; 3 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.
Wildfire, 2015 to 2018
5 firesEvery wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 5 of them, burning about 135 acres. 1 started naturally and none was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 13 |
| 16 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 14 |
| 29 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 51 |
| 22 June 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Haskell County | 22 |
| 28 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 24 |
Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.
Storms, 1950 to 2025
60 of 453 shownThe NOAA Storm Events Database holds 453 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 7 injuries and about $13,013,250 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.
| Kind of event | Reports |
|---|---|
| Hail | 254 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 140 |
| Tornado | 37 |
| Heavy Rain | 16 |
| Flash Flood | 5 |
| Flood | 1 |
The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1972 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | 7 hurt, $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 1987 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| May 1977 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| May 1962 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $2,500,000 | no account filed |
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | $1,800,000 | There was heavy tree damage in Sublette. At least 2 dozen pivot sprinkler irrigation sprinklers were overturned or destroyed, mainly west and north of Sublette. There were a few sprinklers reported damaged south of town town. There was video of the downburst wind moving through town with a few brief gustnadoes observed on the leading edge of the wall of dirt that was picked up. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Sublette | $1,000,000 | This tornado did high end EF1 damage to Pivot irrigation sprinklers along with other damage to several outbuildings and eight large grain bins. A semi was flipped and carried into a field. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Sublette Arpt | $500,000 | Several county roads were washed out by flash flooding. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tice | $500,000 | One-hundred pivot irrigation sprinklers were damaged or destroyed in and around the county from the high wind. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Tice | $250,000 | This tornado moved rapidly east and then northeast. It damaged the Sublette feeders (grain elevator and equipment) and then overturned 3 pivot sprinklers, damaged trees and other irrigation pipe. The vortex was evident in the crop debris at two locations. |
| March 1982 | Tornado (F2) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 1981 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Satanta Muni Arpt | $200,000 | A one half mile stretch of power poles were blown down. Several pivot irrigation sprinklers were overturned. |
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette Arpt | $110,000 | Power poles were blown down and at least 2 pivot irrigation sprinklers were overturned in the vicinity. |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F2) | Sublette | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Satanta | $75,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Satanta | $65,000 | This narrow tornado damaged a pivot irrigation sprinkler and corn. It moved into Seward county at 853 PM CDT. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | $55,000 | Pivot irrigation sprinkler blown over. Siding was blown off from a nearby house and a window was broken. |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | 2 E Satanta | $25,000 | Cow shed and trailer damaged. There was damage to two houses also. |
| June 1954 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Sublette | $11,000 | Machine shed heavily damaged, horse trailer turned over and windows blown out of a trailer. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Satanta | $10,000 | A natural gas sub-station was taken out by high wind. |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Sublette | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Tice | $8,000 | This small tornado developed on the leading edge of convection and had a local area of intense inflow that helped generate the tornado. A shed was severely damaged and a large pine tree was uprooted. |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Sublette | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Sublette | $3,000 | Windows were broken out of the house. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Satanta | $3,000 | Four inch tree limbs blown down. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | $2,000 | Power poles blown down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Satanta | $2,000 | Power lines down and storage shed moved off foundation at the golf course. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Tice | $1,500 | This tornado crossed highway 56 near the Tice elevator. A metal shed was damaged and several power poles were broken. Winds were estimated at 90 mph. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Satanta | $1,500 | Power poles blown down. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | $1,000 | Tree limbs blown down. |
| June 1966 | Tornado (F1) | not stated | $250 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Satanta Muni Arpt | - | Social media report had a picture showing quarter size hail. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Satanta | - | Report was from KAKE storm chaser. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Sublette | - | A public mPing report of street/road flooding, street/road closures, and vehicles stranded. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Sublette | - | A public report from social media had 2 inch hail with pictures. Another public report nearby of 1 inch hail around the same time. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Satanta Muni Arpt | - | A public report of 1.75 inch hail. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tice | - | Measured by a Prairie AG weather station. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette Arpt | - | AWOS station K19S 1 NE Sublette reported a wind gust of 59 mph. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Sublette | - | Rainfall report of 2.20 inches. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Sublette | - | A rainfall report of 2.00 inches. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | - | Strong thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by emergency management. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | - | One inch tree limbs broken. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | - | Pictures on social media show tree damage and windows blown out of the bowling alley in Sublette. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette Arpt | - | Property damage at this location, includes a flipped over 30-foot trailer, a 300-gallon gas tank. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | - | Pivot springlers blown over. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Tice | - | Measured a 3.25 inch hailstone. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | - | Reported by Law Enforcement. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tice | - | Wind Damage report form 3 WNW of Tice. 3 pivot sprinklers blown over and 13 power poles down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sublette | - | Reported by law enforcement. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Tice | - | The hail was mostly dime sized but there were a few quarter sized pieces observed. |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Sublette Arpt | - | This was a qlcs tornado. |
| August 2020 | Heavy Rain | Satanta Muni Arpt | - | Six inches of rain was observed in just a short amount of time. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Satanta | - | Water was over the road on the south side of Satanta. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Satanta Muni Arpt | - | Most of the hail stones were smaller. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Satanta Muni Arpt | - | Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Sublette | - | Rainfall of 4.44 inches was observed. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Sublette | - | Rainfall of 2.96 inches was measured. |
| August 2018 | Heavy Rain | Sublette | - | Rainfall of 2.60 inches was observed. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Satanta Muni Arpt | - | Three power poles were blown down. |
Every populated place in the county
3Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.
Provenance
- Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
- Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
- Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
- 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.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- 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.