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Castor Station, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Castor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63645. It stands on Cape Creek. The Survey maps it on the Higdon quadrangle.

Castor Station within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Castor Station between 1994 and 2020, burning about 407 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
29 September 2019Debris and open burning3.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179389-02359-09292019-1930
30 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation139671-06205-08302016-1149
30 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use48 acresMark Twain National ForestMADISON
22 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation137331-06205-05222016-1824
18 May 2012Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPUMA
1 May 2020Misuse of fire by a minor2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200545-06205-05012020-1338
5 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190377-06205-04052020-1715

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Castor Station: 22 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Cobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel. 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
Fredricktown ClaimCobalt, Nickel, Lead, GoldProducerAnglesite, Bornite, Covellite, Galena
Harry Clover PropertyManganese, Gold, Iron, Silver, TungstenPast Producer1917
MarshallLead, Cobalt, Copper, IronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-Copper-Nickle-CobaltLead, Nickel, Cobalt, CopperPast Producer
Unknown - Lead.Zinc-Copper.CobaltCobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, ZincPast Producer
Cornwall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
HigdonLeadOccurrenceUnderground
Marshall MineLeadPast Producer
Missouri Petroleum Products QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Moyer ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castor Station in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2018Thunderstorm WindCastor Station-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Cornwall2.1 miles20
Hahns Mill2.3 miles20
Higdon4.5 miles20
Cobalt Village6.4 miles17
Klendike6.7 miles19
Marquand6.8 miles19
Fredericktown7.0 miles17
Junction City7.1 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 Q3471814The 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 737873. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.