BlockCottage, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63549. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barnesville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Elmer quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Elmer quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cottage between 2004 and 2017, burning about 252 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 107 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | HIDDEN HOLLOW |
| 4 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardy | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Mercyville | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Elmer | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Plainview | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Love Lake | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| La Plata | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Barnesville | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Gifford | 6.0 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740158. 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.