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Grove, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66539. The Survey maps it on the Grove quadrangle.

Grove within Shawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

68 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Grove between 2015 and 2019, burning about 756 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined24
Arson/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning13
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service15
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee County219
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service141
19 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service236
11 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service232
9 July 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service200
19 June 2018Naturalunder an acreKansas Forest Service174
15 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee County95

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grove in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017HailGrove-Delayed report. Size was estimated from photo online. Time and location was estimated as well.
July 2015Flash FloodGrove-The intersection of 86th and Carlton rd is closed due to flooding.
June 2015Flash FloodGrove-Residents being evacuated due to flooding along the little Soldier creek.
July 2015Flash FloodGrove-The intersection of 86th and Valencia rd is impassible.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGrove-Several 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were reported broken.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindGrove-no account filed
June 2015HailGrove-no account filed
June 2013HailGrove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shawnee 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
Silver Lake4.4 miles20
Rossville5.4 miles19
Kiro5.9 miles20
Valencia6.2 miles19
Willard6.7 miles19
Menoken7.6 miles20
Elmont8.3 miles20
North Topeka12.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484851. 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.

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.