Adam Ford, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Gasconade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65534. It stands on Nelson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brownfield quadrangle.

Adam Ford within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1943 USGS Drynob quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Drynob quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Adam Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,477 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 70 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
Arson/incendiarism	70
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	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
28 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	PERSISTANT
20 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	SOUTH
20 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Mark Twain National Forest	BALE
20 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	NORTH
15 August 2012	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	FALCON
1 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	CATAMOUNTAIN
15 June 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 May 1992	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede 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
Winnipeg	2.2 miles	17
Brownfield	2.8 miles	17
Casey Ford	2.9 miles	17
Falcon	3.1 miles	17
Nebo	4.0 miles	17
Southard	6.2 miles	17
Drynob	6.5 miles	17
Jacksonville	6.9 miles	17

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 Q122596051

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 748558. 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.