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Victory Junction, Kansas

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kansas City City. It lies in ZIP code area 66109. The Survey maps it on the Basehor quadrangle.

Victory Junction within Wyandotte 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.

Fires near this place

116 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Victory Junction between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,502 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/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism16
Debris and open burning13
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service23901
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County175
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service23147
9 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service19532
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyandotte County732
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service639
22 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service5018340
14 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLeavenworth County521

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte 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 Victory Junction: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tobin Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Underground Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wyandotte 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
Piper2.3 miles37
Wallula3.0 miles35
Maywood4.0 miles37
Grandview4.3 miles36
Sunflower4.8 miles38
Bonner Springs4.9 miles36
Lake of the Forest5.4 miles38
Edwardsville6.4 miles38

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 Q122568924The 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 478557. 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.