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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.

East Fairmount within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 35 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

94 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined43
Debris and open burning24
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County175
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service23147
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service19532
26 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service834
22 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service5018340
11 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service545
8 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service657
28 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service734

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lansing QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth 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
Fairmount0.9 miles35
Basehor3.3 miles35
Hiatt3.9 miles37
Ettenson4.0 miles37
Stone4.0 miles35
South Basehor4.1 miles35
Hoge4.1 miles35
Lansing4.4 miles35

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 Q122560505The 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.