Blase, Missouri

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rivers Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63301. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle.

Blase within St. Charles County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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.

1924 USGS Robertson quadrangle1:24000
1927 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1933 USGS Saint Charles quadrangle1:62500
1933 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1954 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1994 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blase between 2014 and 2017, burning about 44 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 burning	2

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
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	39 acres	Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge	CALHOUN WETLANDS
28 November 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	ALAN TOPPMEYER 201714

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Charles 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 Blase: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Calhoun Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Osborne Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Charles 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
Orchard Farm	1.7 miles	23
Seeburger	1.8 miles	28
Vans Camp	1.9 miles	27
South Shore	2.5 miles	28
Boschertown	2.7 miles	25
Seebarger	3.6 miles	28
Elm Point	3.8 miles	25
Kampville	3.9 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 755788. 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.