BlockNeal, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Quincy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66863. It stands on Bachelor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neal quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1885 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Neal quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS El Dorado quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Neal between 2015 and 2018, burning about 615 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 | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 101 |
| 30 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 69 |
| 28 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 63 |
| 23 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 58 |
| 13 February 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Greenwood County | 19 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neal in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neal | $44,000 | Twenty two power poles were snapped. Time is estimated from radar. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neal | $20,000 | Several power lines were blown down. |
| October 2016 | Flash Flood | Neal | $100 | The Emergency manager reported widespread flooding across the southern half of Greenwood county. Numerous rural roads were reported impassible. Water was also reported covering portions of US Highway 99 and US Highway 400. |
| October 2016 | Flash Flood | Neal | $100 | A successful water rescue was performed near Neal in Eastern Greenwood county. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Neal | - | Quarter sized hail and 55 mph winds were reported. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neal | - | Numerous trees were reported down. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neal | - | Five hundred gallon tank blown over and numerous 3-inch diameter tree limbs blown down along northeast shore of Fall River Lake. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Neal | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Neal | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Hail | Neal | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Neal | - | 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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Neal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6984031 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474659. 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.