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Cross Roads, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63645. It lies near Peg Knob. The Survey maps it on the Womack quadrangle.

Cross Roads within St. Francois County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 257 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
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
25 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177322-06205-07202018-1628
18 June 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177361-09435-05112018-1733
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burning62 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200542-06205-04082020-1236
4 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation136110-06205-04032016-1201

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Cross Roads: 27 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Lead, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Iron. 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
Mine La MotteLead, Silver, Copper, Cobalt, Zinc, NickelPast Producer1720
Mine La Motte Bank No. OneIronPast Producer
Mine La Motte GroupCopper, Lead, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1720, 1827
Unknown - Iron-Pb-Ni-Cu-CoCopper, Iron, Lead, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer
Unknown - Lead.Copper.Cobalt.NickelCobalt, Copper, Lead, NickelPast Producer
Unknown - Lead.ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead.ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead.ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead.ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown Lead.ZincLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francois 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
Libertyville3.4 miles18
Knob Lick6.4 miles18
Syenite7.7 miles18
Valley Forge (historical)10.6 miles18
Farmington12.2 miles19
De Lassus13.0 miles19
Hamilton Town13.6 miles18
Rock Springs14.0 miles19

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 Cross RoadsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28052016The 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 757967. 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.