BlockReager, 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. 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
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reager in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reager | $25,000 | Grain bin blown over in town at grain elevator. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reager | $25,000 | Semi truck blown over 1 mile west of Reager. |
| October 2024 | Hail | Reager | - | Dime to quarter sized hail reported with ground turning white from hail coverage. |
| September 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Reager | - | Received a photo of a tornado 7 miles northwest of Norton, KS. The tornado began northwest of the Road W9 and Road G intersection, traveled southeast ending east of Road W5 between Roads H and I. No damage was reported. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Reager | - | Hail is still falling with wind gusts up to 40 MPH. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Reager | - | Hail still falling with wind gusts up to 50 MPH and heavy rainfall reducing visibilities to a quarter mile. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Reager | - | The tornado was brief and remained over open fields with no known damage. Law enforcement reported two tornadoes occurring at the same time...one about one and a half miles east of Norcatur (this tornado) and another about a mile north of Norcatur. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| March 2018 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reager | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reager | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Reager | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Reager | - | 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 471033. 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.