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Trading Post, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66075. It stands on Big Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasanton quadrangle.

Trading Post within Linn County

On record in Trading Post

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

123 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Trading Post between 1996 and 2020, burning about 5,108 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism31
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking1

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
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeSEED SACK
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge1700-69
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeGATLIN BALER
23 June 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeDAVIS BRIDGE
21 June 2017Debris and open burning52 acresMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeLONE 20 EAST
19 June 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeMINE CREEK CAMPFIRE
16 June 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMarais des Cygnes National Wildlife RefugeLOG JAM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trading Post in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTrading Post$5,000A roof was blown off a home.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTrading Post-Estimated 65 mph wind gusts between Pleasanton and Trading Post.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTrading Post-A stationary tractor-trailer was overturned at this location due to strong winds.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTrading Post-Estimated 60 mph wind at the intersection of HWY 52 and HWY 69.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindTrading Post-A semi truck was blown into the ditch on Highway 69 at mile marker 109. Wind damage extends down to Pleasanton along Highway 69.
June 2019HailTrading Post-no account filed
April 1993HailTrading Post-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Boicourt2.6 miles16
Pleasanton5.1 miles15
La Cygne Corner6.7 miles16
La Cygne8.2 miles16
Linn Valley9.0 miles15
Farlinville9.2 miles15
Mound City10.1 miles15
Prescott12.8 miles15

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 Trading PostAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14689968The 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 477932. 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.

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.