Achilles, Kansas

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.

• 1951 USGS Achilles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Achilles quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Achilles in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 17 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Rawlins County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484547. 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.

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.