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Beckville, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63957. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle.

Beckville within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Beckville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 659 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177400-02220-08102018-1730
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178924-02220-06132019-1509
9 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135629-02220-04092016-2305
9 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1992Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Beckville: 17 past producers, 8 occurrences, 6 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eyerman & Schmaltz QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Sheahon Bros QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownStone, DimensionPast Producer
Duncan Bros QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Mccallister QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Piedmont0.8 miles18
Gaylor3.3 miles18
Platow3.7 miles18
Virginia Settlement4.7 miles18
Leeper4.8 miles18
Damon5.3 miles19
Mill Spring5.7 miles18
Chilton (historical)5.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 748754. 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.