Laton, Kansas

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.

• 1896 USGS Plainville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Beloit quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Laton quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Plainville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laton in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

Every storm recorded in Rooks County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484596. 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.

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.