Emporia Junction, Kansas

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 6 records

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

• William Allen White HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971 · 0.9 miles away
• Mrs. Preston B. Plumb Houselisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Snowden S. Mouse Service Station and Tourist Homelisted 2018 · 0.7 miles away
• Harris-Borman Houselisted 1992 · 0.8 miles away
• Col. H.C. and Susan Cross Houselisted 2011 · 0.8 miles away
• Old Emporia Public Librarylisted 1981 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1888 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1955 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Hutchinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Emporia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Emporia Junction between 2015 and 2020, burning about 1,322 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Berkeley Hills
• Emporia
• Lang
• Merrick
• Admire
• Americus

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 477515. 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.