Woods, Kansas
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67951. The Survey maps it on the Woods quadrangle.
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.
- 1955 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Dodge City quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Woods quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Hugoton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Woods between 2006 and 2018, burning about 2,725 acres in total. 1 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 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Pike and San Isabel National Forest | PIPELINE |
| 24 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 242 |
| 12 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,725 acres | Seward County | BLACK |
Storms near this place
54 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woods in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 43 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Woods | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Woods | - | A trained spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Woods | - | An emergency manager reported 2 inch hail. A storm chaser sent pictures of measured 2 inch hail 5 minutes later 2 miles to the northwest. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woods | - | Report of pivots flipped and a vehicle with a camper hookup flipped over. |
| May 2024 | Heavy Rain | Woods | - | A 24 hour rainfall report of 1.00 inches. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woods | - | Structural damage including a destroyed shed, roof damage to a home, several trees broken up and 7 power poles snapped occurred from an apparent downburst. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woods | - | Two to three inch diameter tree branches were broken by the high wind. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Woods | - | Rainfall of 3.5 was reported. |
| August 2010 | Heavy Rain | Woods | - | Rainfall of 3.0 was reported. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Woods | - | The hail was mostly penny sized. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Woods | - | Estimated wind speeds of 50 mph accompanied the penny sized hail. |
| June 2007 | Heavy Rain | Woods | - | Five inches of rain fell overnight at a location 8 miles southwest of Woods. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| November 2015 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woods | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Woods | - | 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 470630. 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.




