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.
Population over time
2 figuresReserve 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 84 | |
| 2020 | 67 | -17 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Reserve quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2008 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Brown County | 12 |
| 27 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 16 |
| 15 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2006 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Horton Agency | LONG SPUR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Lightning | Reserve | $20,000 | Lightning struck an old unused church igniting a fire that completely destroyed the structure. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reserve | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reserve | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Tornado (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 2023 | Hail | Reserve | - | Nickel sized hail reported. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Reserve | - | Report of water and debris flowing over roads. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Reserve | - | A residence evacuated due to rising flood waters. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Reserve | - | Public report of up to golf ball size hail. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reserve | - | Wind caused power poles to come down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Reserve | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Reserve | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Reserve | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Reserve | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Reserve | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Reserve | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Reserve | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Reserve | - | 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 Reserve | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2123711 | 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 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.








