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Reserve, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Padonia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66434. The Survey maps it on the Reserve quadrangle. 67 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Reserve within Brown County

Population over time

2 figures

Reserve fell from 84 to 67 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201084
202067-17 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Reserve between 2002 and 2019, burning about 324 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 August 2008Smoking1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBrown County12
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service16
15 April 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2006Debris and open burning25 acresHorton AgencyLONG SPUR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reserve in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
August 1999LightningReserve$20,000Lightning struck an old unused church igniting a fire that completely destroyed the structure.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindReserve$1,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindReserve$1,000no account filed
May 2023Tornado (EF0)Reserve-A power pole was downed on the Kansas side of 340th street which appeared to be related to a tornado that began just south of the state line and then crossed into Nebraska around 718 pm on May 12th.
April 2023HailReserve-Nickel sized hail reported.
June 2021Flash FloodReserve-Report of water and debris flowing over roads.
June 2021Flash FloodReserve-A residence evacuated due to rising flood waters.
March 2020HailReserve-Public report of up to golf ball size hail.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindReserve-Wind caused power poles to come down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindReserve-One house in the town of Reserve lost the overhanging portion of it's porch, and a camping trailer outside the house next door was overturned. Several small tree limbs were also reported to have blown down. Part of a garage roof was blown off, and debris was blown into a nearby field.
March 2020HailReserve-no account filed
May 2019HailReserve-no account filed
May 2012HailReserve-no account filed
June 2008HailReserve-no account filed
July 2004HailReserve-no account filed
June 1998HailReserve-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Reserve-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Padonia3.7 miles17
Hamlin5.5 miles17
Morrill7.7 miles17
Hiawatha8.7 miles18
Sun Springs9.6 miles17
Fairview12.9 miles17
Robinson13.7 miles20
Powhattan15.3 miles17

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 ReserveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2123711The 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 472784. 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.