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Highland Park, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Topeka City. It lies in ZIP code area 66605. The Survey maps it on the Topeka quadrangle.

Highland Park within Shawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

538 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 538 fires within 5 miles of Highland Park between 2006 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. None started naturally. 113 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/undetermined251
Arson/incendiarism113
Debris and open burning107
Smoking25
Equipment and vehicle use21
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
8 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShawnee County15240
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service16182
29 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresShawnee County127
29 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service15109
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service14941
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17446
22 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service14677
20 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service14591

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Highland Park: 2 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
East Topeka Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kansas Sand and Concrete DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Topeka1.8 miles21
Mathews Park1.8 miles18
Belmont2.2 miles21
Oakland3.3 miles21
North Topeka3.3 miles21
Terra Heights3.5 miles18
Lindbloom Park3.5 miles16
Pauline4.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478711. 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.