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Mona Kay Heights, 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 67216. It stands on Big Slough. The Survey maps it on the Derby quadrangle.

Mona Kay Heights 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

371 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 371 fires within 5 miles of Mona Kay Heights between 2015 and 2020, burning about 165 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined244
Debris and open burning59
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Fireworks9
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes4

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56755
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service54103
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service56551

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 Mona Kay Heights: 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

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
Oaklawn1.1 miles19
Midland Tower1.2 miles19
Riverside1.2 miles19
Keeler1.4 miles19
Midland Park1.5 miles19
Midland1.6 miles19
Connell1.7 miles19
Sand Burr Hill2.0 miles19

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 Q122569951The 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 474346. 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.