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Mission, Kansas

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Mission City. It lies in ZIP code area 66202. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee quadrangle. 9,954 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,017 feet above sea level.

Mission within Johnson County

Population over time

2 figures

Mission grew from 9,323 to 9,954 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
20109,323
20209,954+631 (+7%)

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

186 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Mission between 2007 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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/undetermined103
Debris and open burning20
Smoking16
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2470128
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
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2630080
14 September 2017Smokingunder an acreJohnson County2570129

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Mission: 16 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Coyter Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doarn Quarry and Brick YardStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feebeck QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holmes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kirn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lane QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lone Star Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mcgill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Turner Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mission in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 5 flash flood, 2 hail, 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
August 2004Flash FloodMission$500,0004 to 6 inches of rain in a short period of time caused the northbound ramp to Southwest Trafficway to close. Water rescues were conducted and several homes and businesses suffered flooding.
March 2007Flash FloodMission-I-35 near Turkey Creek closed due to high water.|
February 2007Flash FloodMission-I-35 near Turkey Creek closed due to high water.
August 2004Flash FloodMission-Heavy rains closed Interstate 35 south of Lamar.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMission-Johnson County Fire dispatch reported a powerline down in Mission as a result of damaging severe thunderstorm winds.
April 1993HailMission-Large hail reported at Parkway and Lamar Ave.
April 1993HailMission-Hail ranging from 1.00 to 1.50 inches at 52nd street and Lamar Ave.
August 2005Flash FloodMission-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
Countryside0.8 miles37
Fairway1.3 miles37
Roeland Park1.4 miles37
Merriam2.0 miles37
Mission Hills2.2 miles38
Westwood2.2 miles38
Westwood Hills2.5 miles38
Mission Woods2.6 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.

Wikipedia article on MissionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2751231The 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 478926. 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.