BlockCalvert, Kansas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Center-District 1 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67622. It stands on Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Norton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Norton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Calvert quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Calvert between 2015 and 2017, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Norton County | 1700006 |
| 19 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Norton County | 1700005 |
| 24 January 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2 |
| 22 January 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvert in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Calvert | $300,000 | A four mile path of storm damage was surveyed southeast of Calvert. A large outbuilding at a residence was completely destroyed, irrigation pivots overturned, utility poles damaged, and the back section of a house was also of heavily damaged. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Calvert | $10,000 | Four utility poles were broken, and other minor damage occurred nearby, as this brief tornado moved northeast. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Calvert | $1,000 | A trained spotter reports hail up to 3 inches in diameter. Damage was reported to north facing windows. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvert | - | Report from AWN geil lodge. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Calvert | - | Trained spotter reported hail mostly pea to dime size with largest up to one and a quarter inches. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Calvert | - | Penny to quarter size hail reported and ongoing at time of the report. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Calvert | - | Various sizes from pea to nickel fell at the location. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Calvert | - | Supercell dropped various sizes of large hail from half dollar to tennis ball. A few hail stones may have reached baseball size. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvert | - | Thunderstorm winds shook the house and knocked a very heavy double trash dumpster on its side. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Calvert | - | Estimated wind speeds of 50-60 MPH also occurred with the dime size hail. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvert | - | Estimated wind gusts of 50-60 MPH also occurred with dime size hail. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvert | - | Peak wind estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Calvert | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Calvert | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Calvert | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 471904. 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.