Boekerton, Missouri

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63873. The Survey maps it on the Boekerton quadrangle.

Boekerton within New Madrid County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1940 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Boekerton quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Boekerton: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in New Madrid 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
New Garver	3.0 miles	8
Frailie	3.1 miles	8
Portageville	3.6 miles	11
Jaywye	6.3 miles	11
Hartzell	7.5 miles	8
Glendale	7.6 miles	8
Tallapoosa	7.8 miles	9
Lone Star	7.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 714475. 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.

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.