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Oak Mills, Kansas

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66002. It stands on Little Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oak Mills quadrangle.

Oak Mills within Atchison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

20 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Oak Mills between 2015 and 2018, burning about 718 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County93
15 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresLeavenworth County81
17 April 2018Arson/incendiarism667 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176765-00000-04172018-1710
12 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLeavenworth County70
7 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresLeavenworth County42
7 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service32
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAtchison County170216
4 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresLeavenworth County40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Oak Mills: 12 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bramble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Iatan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Rose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stephens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Mills in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 3 flood, 1 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
March 2019FloodOak Mills$100,000The gauge in Leavenworth, Kansas reached 31.30 feet (2nd place at the time). Some resources were secured or moved off the base at Fort Leavenworth since some of the base was covered with water. The river remained in flood into the middle part of May. Note: The dollar value assigned to the damages is likely not accurate, as the full extent of the damage is unknown.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindOak Mills-ASOS site at KOJC recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
April 2019FloodOak Mills-Water was curb to curb on Ridgeview Road, just south of Santa Fe St.
May 2007FloodOak Mills-The Missouri River at Leavenworth crested at 26.82 feet, or 6.82 feet above flood stage.
February 2017HailOak Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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
Port Williams1.4 miles26
Dalbey5.0 miles26
Saint Pats6.3 miles26
Potter7.1 miles21
Atchison10.0 miles32
Hawthorne11.0 miles21
Parnell11.2 miles27
Cummings12.6 miles21

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 Oak MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199046The 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 478274. 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.