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Burch, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cowan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63964. The Survey maps it on the Cascade quadrangle.

Burch within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Burch between 1993 and 2020, burning about 484 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation241081-11111-09272020-1355
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179444-06205-09182019-1555
16 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177155-11111-06162018-1245
17 May 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 1994Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176905-00000-04212018-1810

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Burch: 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Higgins MineIronPast Producer1905, 1907
Lambert MineIronProspectSurface
McKenzie Bank # 2IronProspect
UnknownIronPast Producer
UnknownIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Clubb3.7 miles20
Coldwater3.8 miles19
Cascade5.0 miles19
Lodi5.3 miles19
Missionary Acres5.7 miles20
Gravelton5.7 miles19
Head Ford (historical)6.5 miles19
Hiram6.5 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on BurchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28120773The 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 740709. 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.