East Fairmount, Kansas
35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairmount Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66007. The Survey maps it on the Basehor quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 35 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.
- 1890 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1894 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 14 printings
- 1934 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:48000
- 1940 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
94 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of East Fairmount between 2009 and 2020, burning about 1,124 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/undetermined | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Leavenworth County | 175 |
| 16 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 23147 |
| 9 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 19532 |
| 26 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 834 |
| 22 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 5018340 |
| 11 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 545 |
| 8 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 657 |
| 28 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 734 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of East Fairmount: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lansing Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122560505 | The 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 484854. 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.











