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Corners, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2000. It stands in St. Marys Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63775. It lies near Thompson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Parker Lake quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Corners within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Corners between 1992 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
9 April 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMark Twain National ForestANDERSON HOLLOW
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190209-09435-03072020-0950
7 March 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190179-09435-03052020-1330
30 March 1998Debris and open burning9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestHIGDON
20 March 2001Debris and open burning39 acresMark Twain National Forest7 MILE RIDGE
14 March 1992Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 March 2004Debris and open burning40 acresMark Twain National ForestWOMACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Corners: 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Zinc. 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
Higdon MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, CobaltProspect1963
Higdon MineLead, ZincUnknown
Silver Lake MineClayPast Producer
Rozier & Wilkinsons DiggingsLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry 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
Parker Lake2.7 miles20
Yount5.2 miles19
Silver Lake6.7 miles18
Friendly Valley10.9 miles18
Highland11.6 miles18
Giboney12.1 miles23
Millheim12.2 miles17
Shakertowne12.9 miles18

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 CornersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15211698The 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 739934. 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.