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Wilder, Kansas

38 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Shawnee City. It lies in ZIP code area 66226. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle.

Wilder within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

99 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Wilder between 2015 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined55
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2710174
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2660176
7 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWyandotte County732
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service639
14 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreLeavenworth County521
14 August 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service209
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2250085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wilder: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Bonner Springs Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bonner Springs-Plant #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Builders #2 Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muncie Plant #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tobin Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Underground Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilder in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2024HailWilder-Hail larger than baseballs (3.5) measured near W 55th Street and KS Highway 7.
June 2017HailWilder-no account filed
March 2017HailWilder-no account filed
March 2017HailWilder-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWilder-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
Chouteau2.1 miles38
Frisbie2.2 miles36
Holliday3.3 miles38
Monticello3.3 miles26
Zarah3.5 miles38
Lake Quivira4.9 miles38
Cedar5.6 miles22
Craig6.0 miles26

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 WilderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17199155The 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 478880. 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.