BlockBarren, Missouri
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Kelly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63965. It stands on Cave Fork. The Survey maps it on the Handy quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Handy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Handy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
57 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Barren (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,865 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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 | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | EASTWOOD |
| 30 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | not named |
| 10 July 1992 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | not named |
| 3 June 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | GOOSENECK SOUTH |
| 5 May 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 57 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | UPPER CAVE FORK |
| 7 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 26 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | HALL |
| 7 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | RED MAPLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740402. 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.