BlockCroft, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Township 10. It lies in ZIP code area 67028. The Survey maps it on the Croft quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1892 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Croft quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pratt quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Croft in 1994, burning about 7,000 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 February 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7,000 acres | Kiowa County | not named |
Storms near this place
6 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Croft in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2005: 5 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Croft | $500 | Large hail of unknown size broke windshield out of car. Harper County 5 N Harper,09,1752CST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (0.75) |
| May 1997 | Hail | Croft | - | Also had 3.5 inches of rain at CROFT |
| May 2005 | Hail | Croft | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Croft | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Croft | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Croft | - | 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 484675. 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.