Aurora Springs, Missouri

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.

• 1888 USGS Versailles quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Versailles quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1904 USGS Eldon quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Eldon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Eldon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Eldon quadrangle1:62500
• 1983 USGS Eldon quadrangle1:24000
• 1983 USGS Lake Of The Ozarks quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Aurora Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 332 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eldon
• West Aurora
• Mount Pleasant
• Pleasant Mount
• Rocky Mount
• Bagnell

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Aurora Springs: 7 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Coal, Lead, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Miller County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 713489. 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.