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Prairie Village, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Prairie Village City. It lies in ZIP code area 66208. The Survey maps it on the Lenexa quadrangle. 22,957 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Prairie Village within Johnson County

On record in Prairie Village

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Prairie Village grew from 21,447 to 22,957 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201021,447
202022,957+1,510 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

179 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Village between 2006 and 2018, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined87
Debris and open burning23
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks4
Natural3

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 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2520092
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreJohnson County2520108
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreJohnson County2480067
3 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2460133
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson Countynot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2680121
22 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2650077

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Prairie Village: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Doyle Rock Company Clay PitClayPast Producer
Coyter Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, 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
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Leawood1.9 miles27
Mission Hills2.0 miles38
Countryside2.0 miles37
Overland Park2.1 miles24
Fairway2.1 miles37
Mission2.8 miles37
Elmhurst3.0 miles24
Roeland Park3.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Prairie VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q989487The 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 479232. 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.