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Chouteau, Kansas

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Shawnee City. It lies in ZIP code area 66218. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.

Chouteau within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 38 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

116 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Chouteau between 2015 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined70
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2710174
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2660176
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyandotte County732
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service639
11 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2230130
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County1900109
5 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service1860162
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2110036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Chouteau: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Bonner Springs Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bonner Springs-Plant #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Builders #2 Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muncie Plant #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tobin Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Underground Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Holliday1.3 miles38
Wilder2.1 miles38
Zarah2.8 miles38
Lake Quivira2.9 miles38
Monticello3.4 miles26
Frisbie3.8 miles36
Craig5.7 miles26
Shawnee5.8 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484873. 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.