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Barnesville, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64062. The Survey maps it on the Elmira quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Barnesville within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

3,802 words on this township

The History of Clinton County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Clinton County in the Late War, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Clinton County, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jackson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jackson Township - 3,802 words.

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Barnesville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 168 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 August 2018Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177628-02515-08062018-0928
22 August 2018Smoking4.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177629-02515-08222018-1720
25 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177900-08922-07252018-1617
22 July 2018Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177894-08922-07222018-2047
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1995Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Barnesville: 5 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
Everett Q #28-50Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Converse2.4 miles22
Lake Arrowhead4.9 miles22
Guyton5.0 miles16
Haynesville5.4 miles22
Lathrop6.1 miles16
Plainview6.3 miles14
Wexford9.1 miles16
Turney10.2 miles16

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 BarnesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984581The 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 740658. 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.