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Lake of the Forest, Kansas

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bonner Springs City. It lies in ZIP code area 66012. It stands on East Mission Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.

Lake of the Forest within Wyandotte County

On record in Lake of the Forest

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

104 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Lake of the Forest between 2015 and 2020, burning about 86 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2710174
24 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service23901
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2660176
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyandotte County732
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service639
14 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLeavenworth County521
14 August 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service209
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2110036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake of the Forest: 6 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
Bonner Springs-Plant #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Builders #2 Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muncie Plant #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tobin Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Underground Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Edwardsville1.1 miles38
Sunflower1.3 miles38
Grove Center2.0 miles38
Bonner Springs2.3 miles36
Grandview3.1 miles36
Grinter Heights4.1 miles38
Maywood4.3 miles37
Stony Point4.7 miles38

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.

Wikidata item Q122566993The 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 485427. 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.