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Chapel, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chapel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65548. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View quadrangle.

Chapel within Howell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Chapel between 1992 and 2017, burning about 752 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning17
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined387 acresMissouri Department of ConservationRENEGAR
11 August 2007Arson/incendiarism8.8 acresMark Twain National ForestKODIAK 2
2 April 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135711-04631-04142016-1220
14 April 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism76 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1994Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Chapel: 8 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Calcium, Copper. 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
Gene Bay ProspectCopperPast Producer
Unknown - OnyxCalciumPast Producer
Fisher-Melton MineIronPast Producer1954
Henry MineIronPast Producer
Indian Ford BankIronPast Producer
Lola Farrar ProspectIronProspectSurface
Melton MineIronPast Producer
St Francis BankIronPast Producer
Talkington BankIronProspect
Virgil Flower PropertyIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howell 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
Mountain View4.4 miles12
Peace Valley5.2 miles12
Trask7.3 miles12
Turnerville8.0 miles19
White Church8.3 miles12
Fanchon9.8 miles12
Hutton Valley11.2 miles14
Pomona13.5 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on ChapelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985317The 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 735089. 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.