Curdton, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1983. It stands in New Lisbon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63960. It lies near Rock Knob. The Survey maps it on the Acorn Ridge quadrangle.

Curdton within Stoddard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1934 USGS Puxico quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Puxico quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Acorn Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Curdton between 1995 and 2019, burning about 125 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 burning	2

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
5 April 1995	Debris and open burning	122 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 December 2019	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179583-10399-12112019-1515

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Curdton: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hawks + Houck Land	Iron	Occurrence
Unk	Iron	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stoddard 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Castorville (historical)	2.5 miles	11
Leora	3.2 miles	19
Acorn Ridge	3.5 miles	11
Hickman	3.7 miles	11
Idlewild	3.7 miles	19
Kinder	3.7 miles	19
Eaglette	5.0 miles	19
Puxico	5.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740788. 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.