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Min - Rock Village, Kansas

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Kansas City City. It lies in ZIP code area 66103. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee quadrangle.

Min - Rock Village within Wyandotte County

On record in Min - Rock Village

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

185 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Min - Rock Village between 2007 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined112
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking15
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service24406
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyandotte County23456
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Min - Rock Village: 39 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Perlite. 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
Doyle Rock Company Clay PitClayPast Producer
Lite Weight Products Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Unknown-Ls and ShaleClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Muncie Creek Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Coyter Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doarn Quarry and Brick YardStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feebeck QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Grays Park1.5 miles37
Argentine2.0 miles37
Kansas City3.0 miles37
Turner3.8 miles37
Fairfax5.0 miles40
Muncie6.0 miles37
Welborn6.1 miles40
Morris6.2 miles38

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 Q122551464The 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 2510282. 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.