Little Kaw, Kansas

36 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66012. The Survey maps it on the Bonner Springs quadrangle.

Little Kaw within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 36 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.

1890 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 14 printings
1934 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

95 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Little Kaw between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,005 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined	52
Debris and open burning	20
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2710174
20 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	2630093
14 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Leavenworth County	521
1 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	165
27 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	510
23 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Johnson County	2040238
2 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	1830162

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Little Kaw: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bonner Springs-Plant #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Builders #2 Dredge & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bonner Springs Cement Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Tobin Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Underground Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mahon	1.3 miles	36
Coldspur	2.2 miles	36
Lenape	3.1 miles	22
Stone	6.3 miles	35
South Basehor	6.4 miles	35
Linwood	6.7 miles	23
Basehor	7.3 miles	35
Hoge	10.1 miles	35

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 Q122540153

The 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 484871. 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.