Curzon, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64451. It stands on Schlotz Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oregon quadrangle.

Curzon within Holt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1926 USGS Oregon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Oregon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

15,979 words on this township

History of Holt County, Missouri : from the Time of the Platte Purchase to the End of the Year 1916 : Preceded by a Short History of Missouri : Supplemented by Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens, published 1917 names this settlement in its chapter on Lewis Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Of George and Augustus Borchers, the first to engage in mercantile business in the county, mention is made in the chapter on Forbes Township, where their store was located. The third person to sell goods within the limits of Holt County, also began in Lewis Township. This was Daniel Zook, Sr., who. in the fall of 1841, came from Ohio. He sold a few goods in a house on a farm near the present town of Curzon, and included in the southeast quarter of section 15, township 59, range 38, on the waters of Little Tarkio Creek, about three and a half miles south of the site of the present town of Oregon. He remained here a very short time, when he returned home. Arriving again, in the spring of 1842, he built on the site of the town of Oregon, the first house ever erected in the place, as especially referred to under the head of Oregon.

Passage source: History of Holt County, Missouri : from the Time of the Platte Purchase to the End of the Year 1916 : Preceded by a Short History of Missouri : Supplemented by Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens, published 1917.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Lewis Township.

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Curzon between 2002 and 2016, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
27 March 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
20 February 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	6
1 November 2011	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Curzon: 17 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Oregon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown

Every working recorded in Holt 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
Oregon	3.3 miles	23
Forest City	3.6 miles	23
Forbes	4.5 miles	24
Richville	6.6 miles	24
Nichols Grove	6.6 miles	11
New Point	8.9 miles	11
Napier	9.4 miles	13
Fortescue	11.7 miles	13

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 Curzon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985296	The 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 734318. 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.