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Broken Arrow Park, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Lawrence City. It lies in ZIP code area 66046. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence East quadrangle.

Broken Arrow Park within Douglas County

On record in Broken Arrow Park

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

149 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Broken Arrow Park between 2015 and 2020, burning about 328 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Debris and open burning37
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas County8594
22 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas County9130
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County297
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service7969
6 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service7898
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County7332
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service7782
29 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas County8263

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Broken Arrow Park: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lawrence Quarry & Mill No.16Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Lawrence2.8 miles19
Noria3.5 miles19
Sibleyville4.0 miles19
Bismark Grove4.0 miles19
Pleasant Grove5.4 miles18
Midland6.7 miles23
Vinland7.0 miles17
Eudora7.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479135. 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.