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Bates Creek Camp, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Breton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63664. The Survey maps it on the Potosi quadrangle.

Bates Creek Camp within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Bates Creek Camp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,013 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation128010-11043-09062015-1446
31 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1995Equipment and vehicle use32 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 61 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 61 workings within 5 miles of Bates Creek Camp: 57 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Jordans Copper DiggingsCopperPast Producer
Pierce and Willoughby's DiggingsBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
PotosiLead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, IronPast Producer1763
Strawberry DiggingsLead, Zinc, Barium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Wolf QuarryDolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, IronPast Producer
Krueger Zinc MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead and ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead and ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown -Ba and PbLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Potosi2.7 miles21
Springtown3.4 miles21
Shirley5.2 miles22
Mineral Point5.8 miles20
Latty5.8 miles21
Frogtown5.9 miles21
Summit6.0 miles20
Hopewell6.4 miles20

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 Q122539320The 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 748711. 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.