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Crag O Lea, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pineville North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64856. It sits by Clemens Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Jane quadrangle.

Crag O Lea within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Crag O Lea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,636 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
22 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179094-06021-09162019-1500
9 July 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 1992Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Crag O Lea: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jeffers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonald 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
Deep Ford0.1 miles13
Sugar Beach0.9 miles13
Pineville2.0 miles13
Havenhurst2.1 miles13
Meadors Ford3.1 miles13
Wylie3.7 miles13
Griffin Ford3.9 miles13
Poole Ford4.2 miles13

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 Q122557445The 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 716454. 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.