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Cole Camp Junction, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Williams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65325. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln quadrangle. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Cole Camp Junction within Benton 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.

In the county-history sources

93 words on this township

A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Williams Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Williams Township - 93 words.

Fires near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Cole Camp Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177867-00807-08042018-1355
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177803-00804-07122018-1344
8 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176395-00807-04082018-1045
5 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177802-00804-04212018-2120
19 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177169-00807-04192018-2038
8 March 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176396-00807-03082018-1045
8 March 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122653-00805-03082015-1449

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cole Camp Junction: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Flagstone. 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
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chick Young MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Chmelir QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Neff QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Tahoma MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holderman DiggingsZincPast Producer
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Ionia3.8 miles19
Cole Camp3.9 miles17
Windsor Junction5.0 miles19
Mora5.3 miles18
Lincoln5.9 miles17
Crest7.5 miles17
Lake Creek8.2 miles18
Brandon8.4 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q5142630The 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 716092. 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.