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Barkley, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in South River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63401. It stands on College Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rensselaer quadrangle.

Barkley within Marion County

On record in Barkley

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Barkley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning9
Smoking1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
17 August 2020Other causesunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230745-06438-08172020-2035
25 July 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179720-06417-07252019-1010
10 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179032-06438-07102019-2250
21 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178954-06438-05072019-1824
13 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177505-06438-05132018-1502
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177504-06438-04302018-2136
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177501-06438-04272018-1335

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Barkley: 6 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
Central Stone #7 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marblehead Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
White Bear QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Withers Mill2.1 miles17
Uva3.0 miles17
Mount Zion Community3.0 miles17
West Ely3.3 miles11
White Bear3.7 miles17
Dodge City4.0 miles13
Palmyra4.1 miles13
Woodland4.6 miles13

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 BarkleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985895The 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 732982. 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.