Blackwater, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Warrensburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64093. It stands on Devils Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warrensburg East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Blackwater within Johnson County

On record in Blackwater

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.

Garden of Eden Stationlisted 1994 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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.

1885 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
1887 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Warrensburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1917 USGS Knobnoster quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Warrensburg East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Sedalia quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

5,328 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Warrensburg Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Blackwater enters the township near the north-west corner pursuing an easterly and north-easterly course till it leaves the township, very near the north-east corner. The bottoms on Blackwater frequently open out into broad level plains, now under cultivation or covered with grass. Post Oak flows north through the western portion of the township, uniting with Blackwater in section 11, township 46, range 26.

Passage source: The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881.

Much timber formerly skirted Post Oak, but during the war vast quan¬ tities were cut off by the soldiers, a seconed growth, however, has taken its place, covering theuneaven knolls and breaks for miles in extent, north and south. Bear creek, the third stream in size, in this township, rises in the southeast, flows in a northeasterly direction, and empties into Blackwater, just over the line in Simpson township. The banks are high above the water, hence no fords where loaded teams can pass. Walnut creek, a small stream from Hazel Hill township, enters Blackwater a short dis¬ tance above the mouth of Post Oak, but on the opposite side. West fork of Post Oak enters this township from Centerview, and unites with the main current three miles southwest of Warrensburg.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Warrensburg Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

54 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Blackwater (historical) between 2003 and 2020, burning about 180 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined	28
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177674-05130-09232018-1600
3 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Blackwater (historical): 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bruce Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pickel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ss.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Warrensburg	2.0 miles	22
Pertle Springs	4.1 miles	20
Greendoor	4.9 miles	19
Bowmansville	5.7 miles	20
Fayetteville	6.3 miles	19
Centerview	6.3 miles	19
Montserrat	6.5 miles	23
Bristle Ridge	7.0 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740046. 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.