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Lindbloom Park, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Monmouth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66409. The Survey maps it on the Richland quadrangle.

Lindbloom Park within Shawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

336 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Lindbloom Park between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,011 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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/undetermined141
Debris and open burning113
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service16182
29 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresShawnee County127
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17446
21 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresShawnee County938
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17228
15 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1024
14 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service16880
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service14270

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee 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 Lindbloom Park: 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
East Topeka Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Mathews Park2.0 miles18
Berryton3.1 miles18
Terra Heights3.3 miles18
Watson3.5 miles16
Highland Park3.5 miles21
Pauline3.9 miles18
Belmont4.3 miles21
Tecumseh4.9 miles22

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 Q122558032The 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 484944. 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.