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Medina, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Kentucky Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66073. It stands on Little Wild Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Perry quadrangle.

Medina within Jefferson County

On record in Medina

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

9 surveys from 24 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

80 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Medina between 2003 and 2018, burning about 439 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined54
Debris and open burning15
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresKansas Forest Service132
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service184
5 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJefferson Countynot named
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2018125
22 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service157
22 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service77
9 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service124
11 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service125

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Medina: 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
Hamm PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Perry1.5 miles24
Thompsonville2.0 miles24
Newman2.3 miles24
Williamstown4.8 miles23
Lake Ridge6.6 miles22
Lakeside Village6.7 miles22
Hilldale South7.3 miles22
Grantville7.4 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.

Wikipedia article on MedinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17080758The 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 484868. 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.