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Westwood Hills, Kansas

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Westwood Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 66205. The Survey maps it on the Kansas City quadrangle. 400 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Westwood Hills within Johnson County

On record in Westwood Hills

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

Population over time

2 figures

Westwood Hills grew from 359 to 400 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010359
2020400+41 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 38 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

152 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Westwood Hills between 2007 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined85
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning12
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2

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
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service24406
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyandotte County23456
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Westwood Hills: 45 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Doyle Rock Company Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unknown-ClayClayPast Producer
Brush Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Coyter Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Doarn Quarry and Brick YardStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feebeck QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Grady QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holmes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westwood Hills in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 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
May 2010HailWestwood Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Mission Woods0.3 miles38
Westwood0.4 miles38
Roeland Park1.2 miles37
Mission Hills1.5 miles38
Fairway1.6 miles37
Mission2.5 miles37
Countryside2.8 miles37
Prairie Village3.5 miles24

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 Westwood HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979459The 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 479026. 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.

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.