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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 66048. The Survey maps it on the Basehor quadrangle.

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

93 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Fairmount between 2015 and 2020, burning about 743 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 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

Storms near this place

18 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairmount in 18 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairmount$25,000Large trees were snapped off at ground level. A barn was destroyed at 155th Street and Fairmont Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFairmount$2,000Play set was knocked over.
July 2010Flash FloodFairmount$500Heavy rains caused many roads to be covered in the Basehor area. A house reported 3 to 4 feet of water in it.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Measured wind gust of 64 mph at a personal weather station west of Fairmount.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFairmount-There were some reports of 60 mph wind near Fairmont.
May 2021HailFairmount-This report came from MPing.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Power lines down across the area.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Emergency Management reported 70 mph wind.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Power pole down near Fairmount, Kansas.
July 2015Flash FloodFairmount-Two feet of water was reported over Brandt Road east of 155th St.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. Two seventy feet tall trees were blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph, with several trees knocked down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFairmount-A two foot in diameter tree was blown over at 163rd and Fairmount Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFairmount-A thunderstorm wind gust was estimated to be 60 mph.
May 2012HailFairmount-no account filed
June 2011HailFairmount-no account filed
April 2009HailFairmount-no account filed

Every storm 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
East Fairmount0.9 miles35
Hoge3.4 miles35
Basehor3.5 miles35
Hiatt4.3 miles37
South Basehor4.3 miles35
Lansing4.4 miles35
Stone4.5 miles35
Ettenson4.5 miles37

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 FairmountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15991445The 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 478558. 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.