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Grover, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Lecompton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66050. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Perry quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Grover within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

80 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Grover between 2005 and 2020, burning about 620 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined46
Debris and open burning21
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
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
14 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresKansas Forest Service132
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service184
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service18058
13 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service900
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018125
2 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreShawnee County663
22 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service157
22 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service77

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Grover: 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
Hamm PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Big Springs3.5 miles24
Lecompton3.6 miles24
Stull6.1 miles20
Kanwaka7.6 miles21
Clinton10.9 miles20
Midland11.8 miles23
Lawrence13.4 miles19
Bismark Grove14.2 miles19

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 GroverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5611501The 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 484867. 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.