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Huscher, Kansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nelson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66901. It stands on East Branch Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rice quadrangle.

Huscher within Cloud County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

15 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Huscher between 2015 and 2018, burning about 1,646 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3

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
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service10
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
30 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service9
19 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKansas Forest Service437
7 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service7
8 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service3
6 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCloud County3
6 March 2017Debris and open burning30 acresCloud County4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cloud County

Storms near this place

13 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huscher in 13 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHuscher-Power lines are down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHuscher-Report of roof damage and tin sheds destroyed at 160th and Noble road.
April 2022HailHuscher-Quarter sized hail reported.
April 2012Tornado (EF0)Huscher-A tornado touchdown was reported with what appeared to become a rain wrapped tornado. Time of touchdown and path length determined based off of radar and the chaser report. No damage was reported.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHuscher-Vehicles blown off highway from 5 miles south to 11 miles south of Concordia.
May 2016HailHuscher-no account filed
August 2016HailHuscher-no account filed
October 2014HailHuscher-no account filed
May 2011HailHuscher-no account filed
March 2011HailHuscher-no account filed
September 2010HailHuscher-no account filed
May 2010HailHuscher-no account filed
August 2009HailHuscher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cloud 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
Cook2.0 miles13
Rice3.8 miles13
Rosaco4.3 miles14
Concordia5.0 miles14
Aurora6.0 miles14
Ames8.4 miles13
Yuma9.7 miles14
Saint Joseph9.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484632. 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.