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Kenneth, Kansas

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Overland Park City. It lies in ZIP code area 66224. It stands on Negro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belton quadrangle.

Kenneth within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

108 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Kenneth between 2006 and 2019, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use20
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2480037
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson Countynot named
2 September 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service2450113
15 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
12 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2550029
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2540028
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2540058

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Kenneth: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Blue Valley MinesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Blue Valley MinesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenneth in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2024Flash FloodKenneth-Numerous reports of flooded roadways and water rescues across Johnson County between 10:30 am and 12 pm CDT.
August 2017FloodKenneth-A family was stranded on a roof at 151st and Kenneth.
March 2017Tornado (EF0)Kenneth-During the evening of March 6 a squall line with embedded supercells and mesovortices moved through the Kansas City Metro, causing widespread wind damage. Embedded within the squall line was at least one tornado that formed on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro, and it caused some minor structural damage in Leawood, Kansas.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKenneth-A large tree was split in two, with many other tree limbs reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 1997FloodKenneth-Heavy rains during thunderstorms produced road flooding in parts of southeast Johnson County. Water covered Kenneth Road along Negro Creek.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Redel2.0 miles20
Stanley2.9 miles20
Morse5.9 miles20
Stilwell6.4 miles20
Aubry6.6 miles20
Leawood7.7 miles27
Elmhurst9.1 miles24
Overland Park9.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479579. 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.

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.