Caffeyville, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Phillipsburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65722. The Survey maps it on the Brush Creek quadrangle.

Caffeyville within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1941 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Lebanon SW quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Brush Creek quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Caffeyville between 1992 and 2014, burning about 636 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2000	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
25 August 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 May 1992	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 April 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 April 1994	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 April 2001	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Caffeyville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Stony Point Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Laclede 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brush Creek	1.0 miles	14
Huben (historical)	2.3 miles	14
West Lebanon	5.0 miles	14
Phillipsburg	5.1 miles	14
Lebanon	6.0 miles	14
Morgan	6.6 miles	14
Russ	6.8 miles	14
Evergreen	7.4 miles	14

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 Caffeyville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5017175	The 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 715181. 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.