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Briarwood Estates, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Valle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63020. It stands on Fritz Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Soto quadrangle.

Briarwood Estates within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

97 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Briarwood Estates between 2003 and 2019, burning about 230 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178414-05008-09092018-1315
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation128390-05007-09122015-1411
30 August 2013Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Briarwood Estates: 23 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Iron. 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
Lee's DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Mammoth MineBarium-Barite, Clay, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Quinn MineBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer
Prentiss MineIronPast Producer
Vineland Tunnel & Hill ShaftIronPast Producer
Skewe's & Valle's Copper MinesCopperPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Frech QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
De Soto1.9 miles20
Victoria3.5 miles20
Mount Freedom4.2 miles18
Vineland4.4 miles21
Summer Set4.5 miles21
Hillsboro5.4 miles20
Ware5.8 miles18
Frumet5.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806405. 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.