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Casey Ford, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Gasconade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65470. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winnipeg quadrangle.

Casey Ford within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Casey Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,488 acres in total. None started naturally. 60 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
Arson/incendiarism60
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking2
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
28 August 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresMark Twain National ForestPERSISTANT
15 August 2012Debris and open burning31 acresMark Twain National ForestFALCON
15 June 2017Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 1992Debris and open burning18 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burning10 acresMark Twain National ForestGULF
9 April 2011Debris and open burning55 acresMark Twain National ForestMAYFIELD SPRING
8 April 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestNEW HOME CHURCH

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 Casey Ford: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Falcon1.2 miles17
Nebo2.1 miles17
Adam Ford2.9 miles17
Winnipeg3.1 miles17
Southard4.0 miles17
Jacksonville4.1 miles17
Brownfield5.1 miles17
Clark Ford5.3 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122547782The 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 749243. 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.