Cooksey, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Short Bend Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. It stands on Cattail Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cook Station quadrangle.

Cooksey within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 19 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.

1932 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:48000
1933 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Steelville quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Cook Station quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Cooksey between 1992 and 2015, burning about 912 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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 burning	30
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 May 1994	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 May 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 May 1992	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
3 April 2002	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Cooksey: 19 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Scott Pits	Clay	Past Producer
Vaughan Pits	Clay	Past Producer
Arnold Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Surface
Arnold Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Benton Creek Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Benton Creek Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Blackwell Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Blair Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dent 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Short Bend	1.3 miles	18
Boscobel (historical)	2.9 miles	20
Bangert	3.3 miles	20
Dent Ford	3.6 miles	18
Howes	4.2 miles	17
Sligo	4.5 miles	19
Condray	5.2 miles	20
Mounce	7.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735460. 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.