BlockStudley, Kansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67740. It stands on Storer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Studley quadrangle. It stands 2,408 feet above sea level.
On record in Studley
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
John Fenton Pratt Ranchlisted 1983
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Studley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Oakley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Studley in 2018, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180033 |
| 3 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180011 |
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Studley in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Studley | $25,000 | This tornado moved into Sheridan county from Gove county north of Quinter. Damage occurred to utility poles and trees. No homes or outbuildings suffered damage. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Studley | $2,500 | Report of several large tree branches down. The largest was around 14 inches in diameter and landed on a truck. No significant damage was noted to the truck. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Studley | $100 | Trained spotted reported 2 inch hail which cracked the windshield on their vehicle. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Studley | - | Multiple reports from mPing along Highway 24 of hail ranging from 1.5 to 2.25 inches. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Studley | - | The power has been out for the last 10 minutes. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Studley | - | Report received of hail up to golf ball size at location that covered the ground. |
| December 2021 | Hail | Studley | - | A line of weak storms developed along the cold front as it exited Northwest Kansas and entered Central Kansas. As the line moved over Sheridan County, it produced dime to penny sized hail. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Studley | - | The wind driven hail ranged from baseball to softball in size. A nearby corn field was chopped down to six inches tall. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Studley | - | The FFA VLR tower had the top antenna ripped off. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Studley | - | Large limbs from old cotton wood trees were blown down at Sheridan State Fishing Lake. Estimated time of report from radar. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Studley | - | Water was reported over county roads near Sheridan Lake. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Studley | - | This report was relayed via The Spotter Network. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Studley | - | Report relayed from the National Spotter Network. Descriptions by storm chasers included wedge tornado early and stovepipe appearance later. This tornado tracked over open fields with no known damage. |
| October 2017 | Hail | Studley | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Studley | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Studley | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Studley | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Studley | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Studley | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Studley | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Studley | - | 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 Studley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18385916 | 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 471292. 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.