Decatur, Missouri

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 36 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• St. Vincent's College Buildinglisted 2005 · 0.3 miles away
• Robert Felix and Elma Taylor Wichterich Houselisted 1999 · 0.3 miles away
• Fort Dlisted 2019 · 0.4 miles away
• Huhn-Harrison Houselisted 2002 · 0.4 miles away
• August and Amalia Shivelbine Houselisted 1999 · 0.4 miles away
• South Middle Street Historic Districtlisted 2009 · 0.4 miles away
• Edward S. and Mary Annatoile Albert Lilly Houselisted 2008 · 0.5 miles away
• Haarig Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2000 · 0.5 miles away
• Klostermann Blocklisted 1994 · 0.6 miles away
• George Boardman Clark Houselisted 1994 · 0.6 miles away
• House at 323 Themis Streetlisted 1997 · 0.7 miles away
• Main-Spanish Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2008 · 0.8 miles away

Every listing in Cape Girardeau County

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.

• 1922 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1924 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1967 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Decatur between 1996 and 2018, burning about 177 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.

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:

• Cape Girardeau
• Elmwood (historical)
• Nash
• Blomeyer
• Cedar Cliffs

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Decatur: 16 past producers, 7 producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Silica. 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 Cape Girardeau 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 730551. 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.