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Asherville, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Asherville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67420. It stands on Asher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Simpson quadrangle.

Asherville within Mitchell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Asherville between 2016 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 July 2020Misuse of fire by a minor3.5 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
17 March 2017Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMitchell County6
21 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asherville in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 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 2014HailAsherville$750,000At 640 am CDT, law enforcement reported that there were fields with destroyed crops due to the combination of golf ball size hail and strong wind. These fields were on both the north and south sides of Highway 24 from Roads 350 to 380. At 651 am CDT, Law enforcement reported that golf ball size hail was covering Highway 24. A semi-truck slid off the road and overturned at the intersection of Highway 24 and Road 380 due to the copious amount of hail on the road.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindAsherville$750,000Significant home damage was reported in this area. Approximately another mile and a half east, a farm Quonset was destroyed. The sheriff estimated that winds were at least 90 mph.
August 2021HailAsherville$300,000Hail ranging in size from golf balls to baseballs was reported in this area.
April 2019HailAsherville$25,000Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in the Asherville area.
April 2005HailAsherville$25,000no account filed
September 2008Flash FloodAsherville$15,000Water was rapidly flowing across highway 9 in areas between Beloit and the Cloud county line. Water was also running over highway 14 in northern Mitchell county near the Jewell county line, as well as in and around Beloit.
May 2007HailAsherville$10,000no account filed
May 1999HailAsherville$10,000no account filed
July 2001HailAsherville$2,000no account filed
May 1994HailAsherville$50no account filed
August 2014HailAsherville-Pea to nickel size hail occurred with heavy rain.
July 2010Heavy RainAsherville-Storm total rainfall topped out at 2.40 inches, most of which fell in about an hour.
September 2023HailAsherville-no account filed
May 2018HailAsherville-no account filed
May 2018HailAsherville-no account filed
July 2016HailAsherville-no account filed
May 2016HailAsherville-no account filed
August 2014HailAsherville-no account filed
May 2014HailAsherville-no account filed
July 2010HailAsherville-no account filed
June 2005HailAsherville-no account filed
April 2001HailAsherville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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
Simpson2.8 miles15
Gilbert6.3 miles13
Beloit7.7 miles13
Coursens Grove (historical)8.9 miles15
Scottsville9.6 miles13
Solomon Rapids12.3 miles12
Glen Elder18.7 miles14
Victor19.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 475976. 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.