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Grinter Heights, Kansas

38 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 66111. It stands on Little Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.

Grinter Heights within Wyandotte County

On record in Grinter Heights

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 38 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

156 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Grinter Heights between 2015 and 2020, burning about 107 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined100
Smoking15
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2470128
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2660176
18 September 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service23365
12 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service22772
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyandotte County732
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyandotte County18556
4 August 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service19062
4 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service19080

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grinter Heights: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Lone Star Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Muncie Creek Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muncie Plant #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Superior Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Morris1.1 miles38
Muncie1.3 miles37
Stony Point1.4 miles38
Grove Center2.1 miles38
Edwardsville3.1 miles38
Turner3.2 miles37
Lake of the Forest4.1 miles38
Argentine4.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122595011The 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 478889. 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.