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Cave City, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63401. It lies near Fall Creek Gorge. The Survey maps it on the Hannibal East quadrangle.

Cave City within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Cave City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177318-06417-05052018-1413
9 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177314-06417-03092018-1150
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190314-06417-03082020-2030
7 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190478-06417-03072020-1155
28 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources102217
19 March 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177317-06417-03152018-1744
9 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177311-06417-02092018-1519

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Cave City: 16 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone, Clay. 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
Hannibal Plant - Shale PitClayProducer
Missouri GeodesGemstoneProducer1967
Bleigh Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gen Stewart S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Poage PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Al Plant - Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Burlington MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Central Stone Co. Quarry #6Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fullgrat QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Odell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Hannibal1.9 miles17
Oakwood3.5 miles17
Lamb4.6 miles17
Mungers5.9 miles18
White Bear6.9 miles17
Uva7.0 miles17
Mount Zion Community7.4 miles17
Helton7.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 732996. 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.