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Boys Town of Missouri, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in St. James Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65559. The Survey maps it on the Maramec Spring quadrangle.

Boys Town of Missouri within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Boys Town of Missouri between 1992 and 2020, burning about 392 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230757-08110-09302020-1720
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation144733-02811-09122016-1958
28 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Boys Town of Missouri: 61 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rosati StoneFlagstoneProducer
Julian Pickles ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Powell ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dawson BankClayPast Producer
Dillon Storage Shed & PitClayProducer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps 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
Schundler1.5 miles18
Saint James2.1 miles22
Flag Spring2.7 miles18
Rosati3.3 miles18
Meramec Springs (historical)3.3 miles22
Dean Ford6.1 miles23
De Camp (historical)6.5 miles22
Dillon6.7 miles23

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 Q122569040The 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 755006. 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.