Maple Garden, Missouri

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chouteau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64119. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Kansas City quadrangle.

Maple Garden within Clay County

On record in Maple Garden

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Dr. James Compton Houselisted 1979 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 40 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
1935 USGS North Kansas City quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS North Kansas City quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1948 USGS North Kansas City quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1951 USGS North Kansas City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1964 USGS North Kansas City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS North Kansas City quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS North Kansas City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Maple Garden between 2007 and 2008, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Maple Garden: 30 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Past Producer
Holliday Sand & Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Randolph Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown-S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Claycomo	1.1 miles	24
Maple Park	1.1 miles	40
Ravena Gardens	1.4 miles	24
Winnetonka	1.5 miles	40
Evanston	1.6 miles	40
Pleasant Valley	1.7 miles	24
Winnwood Gardens	1.7 miles	40
Greenwood	2.0 miles	40

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 Q122571904

The 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 739527. 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.