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Cream Ridge, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Chillicothe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64601. The Survey maps it on the Wheeling quadrangle.

Cream Ridge within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

12,700 words on this township

Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Chillicothe Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Chillicothe Township - 12,700 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cream Ridge in 2018, burning about 7 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
13 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176107-05996-03132018-1638
26 February 2018Debris and open burning3.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176109-05996-02262018-1624

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cream Ridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Livingston 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
Norville2.2 miles14
Wheeling4.1 miles14
Cleary4.7 miles13
Chillicothe4.8 miles12
Corner Campbell School5.6 miles15
Leopolis (historical)6.4 miles14
Sturges6.7 miles12
Cavendish6.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740774. 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.