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Dees Town, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Williams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63967. It stands on Marler Branch. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont SE quadrangle.

Dees Town within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Dees Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,269 acres in total. None started naturally. 80 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
Arson/incendiarism80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestWAKEUP
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestSALTBOX
14 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPOWERLINE
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMark Twain National ForestSOLID ROCK
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMark Twain National ForestSAWDUST
8 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCHILDS HOLLOW
8 July 2012Arson/incendiarism11 acresMark Twain National ForestBIG BULL
8 July 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestLITTLE BULL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Dees Town: 61 past producers, 17 prospects, 8 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Usfs LandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alley MineIronPast ProducerSurface
Alley MineIronPast Producer1907
Bank # 1IronProspect
Bingham MineIronPast ProducerSurface
Bingham-Harness&Lundry-Eads-Sawyer-IronPast Producer
Bob Raggin Jr. WilsonIronPast Producer1914

Every working recorded in Wayne 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Barlow (historical)4.6 miles17
Kerrigan (historical)4.8 miles17
Ladero5.6 miles13
Williamsville5.7 miles13
Old Greenville (historical)5.7 miles19
Browns Crossing6.3 miles13
Taskee Station (historical)6.5 miles13
Holliday Landing6.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 730473. 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.