BlockOronoque, Kansas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Highland-District 2 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67654. It lies near Spring Draw. The Survey maps it on the Reager quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1951 USGS Norcatur quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Reager quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Oronoque between 2010 and 2020, burning about 2,700 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Kansas Counties | WILDLIFE MGT AREA |
| 7 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,100 acres | Norton County | PRAIRIE DOG |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oronoque in 12 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | $1,000,000 | Roof and siding damage done to houses, with trees blown onto houses and a grain bin was damaged. Estimated time of report from radar. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Oronoque | $5,000 | Flash flooding reported 4 miles east of Reager, KS on Highway 383. Local dispatch reported that there was one water rescue performed due to the flood conditions at the location. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | Reported via Kansas mesonet at 10 meter height above ground. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | Kansas State Mesonet site near Norton recorded a 61 MPH gust. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | Mesonet station NRRK1 reported wind gusts of 60-70 mph during this time. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | K-State Mesonet site in Norton reported a 58 mph wind gust. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | Reported from a KSU mesonet site. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | Mesonet station NRRK1 Norton 4SW. Wind gust of 54 mph measured at 2 meter height, 64 mph at 10 meter height. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | Kansas State mesonet NRRK1 measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | Kansas mesonet station NRRK1 measured a wind gust of 65 mph. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oronoque | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Oronoque | - | 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 471030. 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.