Mozier Landing, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Hamburg precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62045. It lies near Pancake Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Dale Valley quadrangle. It stands 443 feet above sea level.

Mozier Landing within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1930 USGS Pearl quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Pearl quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Pleasant Dale Valley quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Pleasant Dale Valley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Mozier Landing between 1999 and 2018, burning about 184 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	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 April 2003	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge	LEVEE (GUYTON)
13 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	122150-02379-04132015-1100
30 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge	NATURE TRAIL WILDFIRE
21 March 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	ADAM BAILEY
15 March 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	MARGARET PIKE
12 March 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	BRIAN JOHNSON FIRE
12 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge	SWLVE
10 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge	BYANTS CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mozier Landing: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
	Fox Creek Shale Exposure	Clay	Prospect
	Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Hamburg	1.8 miles	15
Mozier	2.8 miles	13
Michael	5.6 miles	14
Kampsville	6.8 miles	12
Belleview	7.2 miles	16
Star City	8.8 miles	15
Birch Island	8.9 miles	15
Hardin	8.9 miles	14

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 Mozier Landing	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687918	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 414160. 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.