BlockCircle City, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63846. The Survey maps it on the Essex quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1934 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Essex quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Circle City between 2018 and 2020, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 8.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230920-10395-09272020-1600 |
| 14 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177352-10393-07142018-1340 |
| 10 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 251259-10395-11102020-1130 |
| 8 October 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177834-10395-10082018-1320 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Circle City: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunterville | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Grayridge | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Birds Corner | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Idalia | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Clines Island | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Guam | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Buffington | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Essex | 4.4 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 715851. 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.