BlockBefore

Terra Heights, Kansas

18 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 66609. The Survey maps it on the Wakarusa quadrangle.

Terra Heights within Shawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

354 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 354 fires within 5 miles of Terra Heights between 2006 and 2020, burning about 334 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 48 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/undetermined151
Debris and open burning102
Arson/incendiarism48
Smoking22
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee County15043
3 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee Countynot named
29 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresShawnee County127
29 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service15109
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17446
22 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service14677
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17228
15 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresKansas Forest Service1024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Pauline1.0 miles18
Mathews Park2.1 miles18
Cullen Village2.6 miles18
Lindbloom Park3.3 miles16
Highland Park3.5 miles21
Berryton3.7 miles18
Topeka5.0 miles21
Belmont5.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122549418The 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 479083. 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.