Maywood, Kansas

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Kansas City City. It lies in ZIP code area 66111. The Survey maps it on the Wolcott quadrangle.

Maywood within Wyandotte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 37 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
1934 USGS Wolcott quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Wolcott quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS Wolcott quadrangle1:24000
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

103 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Maywood between 2015 and 2020, burning about 411 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	61
Smoking	14
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	23901
18 September 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	23365
16 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	23147
9 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	19532
7 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wyandotte County	732
4 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	19062
4 August 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	19080
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	19061

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte 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 Maywood: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Muncie Plant #6	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Tobin Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Piper	2.2 miles	37
Loma Vista	3.1 miles	37
Vinewood	3.5 miles	37
Bethel	3.7 miles	37
Victory Junction	4.0 miles	35
Stony Point	4.1 miles	38
Lake of the Forest	4.3 miles	38
Pomeroy	4.4 miles	37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478591. 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.