Bluemont Hill, Kansas

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 within a mile 12 of 15 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Strasser Houselisted 2010 · 0.6 miles away
• Runyon, Damon Houselisted 2004 · 0.6 miles away
• Community Houselisted 2006 · 0.8 miles away
• Riley County Courthouselisted 2005 · 0.8 miles away
• First Congregational Churchlisted 2008 · 0.9 miles away
• Lyda-Jean Apartmentslisted 2004 · 0.9 miles away
• E. A. and Ura Wharton Houselisted 1995 · 0.9 miles away
• Robert Ulrich Houselisted 1978 · 1.0 miles away
• Kimble, Francis Byron (Barney), Houselisted 2015 · 1.0 miles away
• Bluemont Youth Cabinlisted 2014 · 0.2 miles away
• Avalon, Thelisted 2019 · 0.7 miles away
• Wolf House Historic Districtlisted 2019 · 0.7 miles away

Every listing in Riley County

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.

• 1886 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
• 1889 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1947 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Bluemont Hill between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,979 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fairmont
• Manhattan
• Sunset Park
• Rocky Ford
• Eureka Lake
• Pillsbury Crossing

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bluemont Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Riley County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 476381. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.