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Countryside, Kansas

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mission City. It lies in ZIP code area 66202. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee quadrangle.

Countryside within Johnson County

On record in Countryside

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 37 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

191 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Countryside between 2007 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined104
Debris and open burning21
Smoking18
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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
9 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2520092
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreJohnson County2520108
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJohnson County2480067
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2470128
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2680121
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2650077
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2630080

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Countryside: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Doyle Rock Company Clay PitClayPast Producer
Coyter Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feebeck QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kirn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lane QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lone Star Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mcgill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Turner Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Countryside in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2026HailCountryside-Quarter sized hail reported in Prairie Village.
May 2025HailCountryside-Quarter sized hail near Lamar and 65th Terrace.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCountryside-Merriam police report multiple trees and power lines down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCountryside-A large tree branch around 1 foot in diameter fell into some nearby powerlines.
May 2016HailCountryside-no account filed
March 2014HailCountryside-no account filed

Every storm 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
Mission0.8 miles37
Fairway1.3 miles37
Roeland Park1.9 miles37
Mission Hills2.0 miles38
Prairie Village2.0 miles24
Merriam2.1 miles37
Overland Park2.5 miles24
Westwood2.6 miles38

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 CountrysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5017065The 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 478932. 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.

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.