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Cole Junction, Missouri

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65109. It stands on Grays Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson City quadrangle.

Cole Junction within Cole County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Cole Junction between 2005 and 2018, burning about 41 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136691-01416-05152016-1212
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176616-01416-04212018-1349
15 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cole County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Cole Junction: 19 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Capitol Sand Co DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Capitol Sand Company Dredge No.2SilicaProducer
Adrian Materials MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Adrian Materials Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Holts Summit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jeff City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jeff-Cole Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kieselback QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
State Penitentiary QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cole 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
Scott2.8 miles20
Jefferson City3.7 miles26
Apache Flats4.5 miles20
Scruggs4.7 miles20
Elston5.3 miles20
Saint Martins6.1 miles20
Plummer6.4 miles20
Lohman8.9 miles20

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 Q122572732The 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 740757. 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.