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North Topeka, Kansas

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Topeka City. It lies in ZIP code area 66608. It stands on Soldier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Topeka quadrangle.

North Topeka within Shawnee County

On record in North Topeka

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 within a mile 7 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

500 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 500 fires within 5 miles of North Topeka between 2006 and 2020, burning about 233 acres in total. None started naturally. 113 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/undetermined248
Arson/incendiarism113
Debris and open burning89
Smoking21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks4
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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
8 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShawnee County15240
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service16182
29 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service15109
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service14941
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17446
22 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service14677
20 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service14591
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17228

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shawnee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Topeka: 1 producer. 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
Kansas Sand and Concrete DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shawnee 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
Oakland1.7 miles21
Topeka1.8 miles21
Belmont2.5 miles21
Highland Park3.3 miles21
Menoken4.9 miles20
Tecumseh4.9 miles22
Mathews Park5.1 miles18
Lindbloom Park6.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 478789. 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.