BlockCave, Kansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Moscow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67952. The Survey maps it on the Moscow quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1944 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Hugoton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cave between 2011 and 2020, burning about 9,612 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Stevens County | 81317 |
| 4 July 2015 | Fireworks | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 704154 |
| 18 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 3 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9,600 acres | Kansas Counties | HASKELL COUNTY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cave in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Flash Flood | Cave | $100,000 | Several county roads across northeast Stevens county were washed out by what was referred to as a Gully Washer. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Cave | - | 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 470578. 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.