Stone, Kansas

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fairmount Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66007. It stands on Piper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Basehor quadrangle.

Stone within Leavenworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 35 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.

1890 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:125000, 14 printings
1934 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Bonner Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Basehor quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

112 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Stone between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,527 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/undetermined	62
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	12
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	23901
17 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leavenworth County	175
16 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	23147
9 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	19532
22 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5018340
14 August 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Leavenworth County	521
14 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	209
12 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	191

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leavenworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stone: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tobin Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Underground Mine & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Leavenworth 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
South Basehor	1.1 miles	35
Basehor	1.5 miles	35
East Fairmount	4.0 miles	35
Fairmount	4.5 miles	35
Hoge	5.1 miles	35
Little Kaw	6.3 miles	36
Mahon	6.5 miles	36
Ettenson	7.3 miles	37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484853. 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.