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Clinton, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Meramec Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. The Survey maps it on the Seaton quadrangle.

Clinton within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Clinton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 577 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1

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
29 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220561-08110-07112020-1755
11 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 1994Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Clinton: 42 past producers, 7 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, 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
Stimson MineIron, CopperPast Producer1880
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
African MineIronPast ProducerSurface/Underground
African MineIronPast Producer
Benton Creek MineIronPast Producer
Blackwell BankIronPast Producer
Blair MineIronPast Producer
Blair MineIronPast ProducerUnknown
Bowman MineIronPast Producer
Bowman MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps 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
Winkler1.5 miles20
Seaton2.3 miles20
Austria (historical)2.5 miles20
De Camp (historical)6.3 miles22
Dean Ford8.6 miles23
Meramec Springs (historical)9.9 miles22
Boys Town of Missouri12.4 miles22
Saint James13.0 miles22

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 ClintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986270The 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 740752. 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.