Wallula, 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.

Wallula 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.

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

94 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Wallula between 2009 and 2020, burning about 1,088 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	47
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
26 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	834
22 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	5018340
14 August 2015	Smoking	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	209
11 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	545

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wyandotte County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wallula: 1 producer. 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
	Lansing Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Piper	2.9 miles	37
Victory Junction	3.0 miles	35
Maywood	5.0 miles	37
Wolcott	5.4 miles	37
Vinewood	5.7 miles	37
Loma Vista	5.9 miles	37
Grandview	7.3 miles	36
Pomeroy	7.4 miles	37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484855. 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.