Crossroads, Missouri

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.

• 1903 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:62500
• 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Onondaga Cave quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Crossroads between 1992 and 2017, burning about 843 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Avery (historical)
• Scotia
• Leasburg
• Coffeyton
• Delhi
• Harrison Mills

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Crossroads: 21 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Crawford County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736507. 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.