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Brookside, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Byrd Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63755. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle.

Brookside within Cape Girardeau County

On record in Brookside

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Brookside between 1995 and 2016, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
27 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 March 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1997Natural1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 January 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation131887-01648-01142016-1639

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau 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 Brookside: 5 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown ZincZincProspect
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau 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
Sawyer2.8 miles19
Fruitland3.1 miles19
Concord (historical)3.4 miles24
Oak Ridge3.4 miles24
Pocahontas4.2 miles24
Jackson5.5 miles19
Leemon5.7 miles20
Millersville5.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740698. 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.