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Nearman, Kansas

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Kansas City City. It lies in ZIP code area 66104. It lies near Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Parkville quadrangle.

Nearman within Wyandotte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 40 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

113 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Nearman between 2007 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined68
Debris and open burning10
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service5021337
20 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service23511
2 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWyandotte County21119
14 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service22956
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service21718
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service19514
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyandotte County18556
4 August 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service19062

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Nearman: 19 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite, 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
Builders #1 Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lite Weight Products Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Unknown ClayClayPast Producer
Daniel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Green Hills QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hevalow & Shields QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Parkville Special Road Dist QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wyandotte County

Storms near this place

3 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nearman in 3 storm reports between 2024 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2026HailNearman-Half dollar sized hail reported along Parallel Pkwy.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNearman-Downed tree and wires near 51st Street.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindNearman-Downed tree and wires near 46th Street.

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
Welborn1.5 miles40
Beverly Hills2.0 miles40
Pomeroy3.4 miles37
Bethel3.5 miles37
Fairfax4.8 miles40
Loma Vista4.9 miles37
Vinewood5.1 miles37
Kansas City5.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122550045The 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 484863. 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.