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Buckeye, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Long Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63823. The Survey maps it on the Bertrand quadrangle.

Buckeye within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Buckeye in 2019, burning about 572 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined570 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179436-10083-09082019-1105
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179342-06732-07042019-1525
26 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179343-06732-06262019-1415
9 January 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178198-80001-01092019-0940

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Buckeye: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hedrick Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mississippi 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
Bertrand2.1 miles11
Never Spur (historical)3.2 miles11
Dogwood5.8 miles11
Charleston7.6 miles13
Texas Bend8.9 miles13
Hallett (historical)9.0 miles13
Airline Acres10.0 miles11
Whiting10.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739879. 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.