Browns Ford, Missouri

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.

• 1887 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1941 USGS Valhalla quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Valhalla quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Harry S Truman Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Ninnescah Park quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Browns Ford between 1992 and 2019, burning about 883 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fox Run
• Baker (historical)
• Corbin (historical)
• Iconium
• Harper
• Ninnescah Park

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Browns Ford: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 755822. 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.