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Grove Center, Kansas

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Edwardsville City. It lies in ZIP code area 66111. It stands on Betts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.

Grove Center within Wyandotte County

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

133 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Grove Center between 2015 and 2020, burning about 120 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/undetermined85
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2710174
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
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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Grove Center: 8 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
Bonner Springs Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lone Star Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tobin Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bonner Springs-Plant #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Builders #2 Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
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
Edwardsville1.0 miles38
Lake of the Forest2.0 miles38
Grinter Heights2.1 miles38
Morris2.7 miles38
Stony Point3.1 miles38
Sunflower3.3 miles38
Muncie3.3 miles37
Bonner Springs4.3 miles36

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478887. 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.