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Reece, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67045. The Survey maps it on the Reece quadrangle.

Reece within Greenwood County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Reece between 2015 and 2020, burning about 4,265 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
16 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service92
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresGreenwood County18-38
27 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresKansas Forest Service60
25 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKansas Forest Service68619
20 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresGreenwood County63
2 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use30 acresGreenwood County30
8 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,700 acresGreenwood CountyD165
27 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresGreenwood County12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reece in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindReece-This was a measured wind gust from a Kansas DOT site.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindReece-Thunderstorm winds produced a line of damage including snapped tree trunks, broken tree limbs and snapped four electric transmission lines.
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Reece-A brief tornado rolled a camper and tossed an outbuilding.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindReece-This was measured by the mesonet site K5EUR at highway US-54 near EUREKA.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindReece-Winds of 70 mph were estimated and reported.
September 2016Flash FloodReece-Significant flooding was being reported across the county due to the heavy rains. The heavy rain combined with the terrain was causing very treachorous conditions across much of the county. The rocky soil conditions were not allowing for water penetration and most of the rain was running off into area creeks and streams producing several water covered roads across the county.
May 2014Funnel CloudReece-A storm chaser reported a rotating wall cloud and funnel clouds going up and down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindReece-The wind gust was reported by the emergency manager.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindReece-Sherrif deputy reported estimated wind speeds of 80 mph with half inch size hail.
May 2014HailReece-no account filed
June 2010HailReece-no account filed
May 2010HailReece-no account filed
May 2009HailReece-no account filed
June 2000HailReece-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindReece-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood 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
Belleview (historical)0.4 miles14
Sallyards3.6 miles14
Landergin (historical)5.7 miles14
Ivanpah7.1 miles14
Eureka8.5 miles14
Blodgett12.0 miles15
Piedmont12.8 miles14
Climax13.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474630. 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.