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Mission Hills, Kansas

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Mission Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 66208. The Survey maps it on the Kansas City quadrangle. 3,594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Mission Hills within Johnson County

On record in Mission Hills

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mission Hills grew from 3,498 to 3,594 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,498
20203,594+96 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 38 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

156 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Mission Hills between 2007 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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/undetermined80
Debris and open burning15
Smoking14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism11
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2

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 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2520092
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreJohnson County2520108
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri 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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2680121
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2650077

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Mission Hills: 43 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Unknown-ClayClayPast 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
Grady QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holmes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Inman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission Hills in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 hail. 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
March 2026HailMission Hills-Quarter sized hail reported near Roe and 71st.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Tree snapped at a residence in Prairie Village.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Downed wires and power outages reported north of Leawood near the state line.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Downed tree limbs and wires near 62nd Terrace.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Social media report of a downed tree on Belinder Avenue in Prairie Village.
May 2024HailMission Hills-Quarter sized hail in Fairway.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Five inch diameter tree limb down, estimated 60 mph wind, and power out.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Estimated 60 mph winds with power outages in Fairway.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Downed wires and power outages near 71st Street.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Large tree limbs across Fairway. Power is out.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-A tree was down on Granada Lane near KCTV 5 studios in Fairway, Kansas.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-A tree limb about 12 inches in diameter came down in a yard near Prairie Village.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-A 14 to 16 inch tree was snapped and several other branches were broken from other trees near Prairie Village.
June 2015Flash FloodMission Hills-A substantial amount of water was running through the golf course in Mission Hills.
April 2007Flash FloodMission Hills-Heavy rains led to flash flooding and a water rescue at 6600 Indian Lane.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMission Hills-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph, and caused six to eight inch diameter tree limbs to be downed at 63rd Street and State Line Road.
June 2019HailMission Hills-no account filed
March 1997Flash FloodMission Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Fairway0.9 miles37
Mission Woods1.3 miles38
Westwood Hills1.5 miles38
Westwood1.6 miles38
Roeland Park1.6 miles37
Countryside2.0 miles37
Prairie Village2.0 miles24
Mission2.2 miles37

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 Mission HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2028321The 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 479020. 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.