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Morris, Kansas

38 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 66106. It stands on Little Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.

Morris within Wyandotte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

164 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Morris between 2015 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Smoking17
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2470128
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2660176
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2650077
18 September 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service23365
14 September 2017Smokingunder an acreJohnson County2570129
12 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service22772
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2210117
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyandotte County732

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Morris: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Lone Star Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Muncie Creek Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muncie Plant #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Superior Sand & Gravel DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wyandotte County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morris in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2008HailMorris$500A car window was busted out by the large hail.
April 2026HailMorris-Mping report of quarter sized hail.
August 2017Flash FloodMorris-KHP shut down I-35 at Antioch Road due to flooding.

Every storm 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
Grinter Heights1.1 miles38
Muncie1.8 miles37
Stony Point2.3 miles38
Grove Center2.7 miles38
Turner2.9 miles37
Edwardsville3.6 miles38
Argentine4.3 miles37
Lake of the Forest4.7 miles38

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478883. 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.