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Grays Park, Kansas

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Kansas City City. It lies in ZIP code area 66103. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee quadrangle.

Grays Park within Wyandotte County

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

180 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Grays Park between 2007 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined103
Smoking16
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service24406
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyandotte County23456
27 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service5021337
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2680121

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Grays Park: 36 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
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Coyter Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doarn Quarry and Brick YardStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feebeck QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grady QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holmes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Inman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kirn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyandotte 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
Min - Rock Village1.5 miles37
Argentine2.7 miles37
Turner4.4 miles37
Kansas City4.4 miles37
Morris6.3 miles38
Fairfax6.4 miles40
Muncie6.6 miles37
Grinter Heights7.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122552705The 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 478963. 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.