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Martin City, Missouri

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Kaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64145. The Survey maps it on the Grandview quadrangle.

Martin City within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

101 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Martin City between 2006 and 2018, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning18
Smoking15
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
3 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service2460133
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson Countynot named
2 September 2015Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service2450113
15 September 2006Smoking1.0 acresJohnson Countynot named
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2540028
11 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2540058
29 August 2017Naturalunder an acreJohnson County2410042

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Martin City: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martin City in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 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
June 2010Flash FloodMartin City$25,000Indian Creek near 103rd and Stateline Road was reported flooding. Businesses were affected up to 100 yards from the creek.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMartin City-Downed tree limbs and wires near McGee Street.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMartin City-Large tree downed.
August 2017Flash FloodMartin City-An apartment complex was evacuated along Holmes Road due to flooding.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindMartin City-A few tree limbs were broken and a port-a-potty was blown over in a neighborhood in far western Jackson County, near Leawood, Kansas.
June 2010Flash FloodMartin City-A water rescue was needed at 99th and Holmes Road. Home evacuations also needed along Indian Creek, near 101st and Wornall.
June 1998Flash FloodMartin City-Heavy rain from thunderstorms produced flash flooding in sections of Martin City and Grandview. A National Weather Service employee reported 2 to 4 feet of water on Wyandotte Street between 135th and 138th Streets. The East Creek also overflowed its banks along Route 150 near Grandview.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
New Santa Fe1.6 miles27
Red Bridge2.9 miles27
Grandview3.0 miles27
Dallas3.8 miles27
Belvidere4.0 miles22
Truman Corners4.0 miles27
Jeffreys4.3 miles27
Hickman Mills4.4 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735712. 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.