Current View, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63935. The Survey maps it on the Supply quadrangle.

Current View within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1935 USGS Reyno quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Supply quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Paragould quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Current View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 227 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1

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
8 April 2016	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	135631-09100-04082016-1405
8 April 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 April 2003	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
4 March 2012	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
20 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 March 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Current View: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
C H Martin Land No 3	Iron	Prospect
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
B.L. Williams Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
York Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ripley 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
Purman	2.3 miles	11
Pratt	3.5 miles	12
Sinsabaugh	4.1 miles	11
Glenn	5.4 miles	11
Torch	6.0 miles	11
Poynor	7.0 miles	13
Hemenway	7.5 miles	11
Martinsburg (historical)	7.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716602. 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.