Catalpa, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Tywappity Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63834. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle.

Catalpa within Mississippi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1939 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1969 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Charleston quadrangle1:24000

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 Catalpa in 2019, burning under an acre 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
Debris and open burning	4

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
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	179341-06732-09042019-1535
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	179340-06732-09272019-2220
22 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	179344-06732-03222019-1830
2 January 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	178197-80001-01022019-1650

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Samos	1.4 miles	11
Hallett (historical)	1.9 miles	13
Coulter	2.2 miles	13
Henson	2.9 miles	11
Charleston	4.0 miles	13
Wyatt	4.2 miles	13
Anniston	4.3 miles	11
Hough	4.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739882. 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.