Center Point, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Berwick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65723. The Survey maps it on the Pierce City quadrangle.

Center Point within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1943 USGS Ritchey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Pierce City quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Neosho quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Center Point between 1993 and 2001, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 March 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Center Point: 33 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown - Ss	Silica	Past Producer
Dorris & Cavender Mine	Lead	Past Producer
Frey-Cummings-Suprise Mining Co.	Zinc	Past Producer	1902
Unknown - Pb	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Zinc	Zinc	Past Producer
Newtonia Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pierce City Lime Co. North Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pierce City Lime Co. South Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Smerdon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unknown - Ss	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Berwick	1.3 miles	11
Jolly	1.6 miles	11
Wentworth	5.2 miles	11
Chester (historical)	5.5 miles	11
Ritchey	5.8 miles	11
Newtonia	6.2 miles	11
Talmage City	6.5 miles	18
Stark City	6.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 737884. 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.