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Midland Park, Kansas

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Wichita City. It lies in ZIP code area 67217. The Survey maps it on the Derby quadrangle.

Midland Park within Sedgwick County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

330 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 330 fires within 5 miles of Midland Park between 2015 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined214
Debris and open burning57
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Smoking10
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism3

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
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSedgwick County52170
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSedgwick County52163
8 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSedgwick County6453
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1541
5 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service50175
25 September 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service56784
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56755
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service54103

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sedgwick 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 Midland Park: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nest Robins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walt Keeler Sand Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sedgwick County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midland Park in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMidland Park-Thunderstorm gust was reported by KWCH-TV storm team.

Every storm recorded in Sedgwick 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
Midland Tower0.8 miles19
Sunset Park0.8 miles19
South Seneca Gardens1.0 miles19
Mona Kay Heights1.5 miles19
Glenville1.7 miles19
Midland1.7 miles19
Sand Burr Hill1.8 miles19
Purcell1.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 474342. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.