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Dent Ford, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Spring Creek East Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. It stands on Whitaker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Short Bend quadrangle.

Dent Ford within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Dent Ford between 1992 and 2015, burning about 1,110 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 1999Debris and open burning75 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2002Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dent Ford: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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 - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Benton Creek MineIronPast Producer
Fitzwater MineIronPast Producer1880
Fitzwater Mine WestIronPast Producer
Fitzwater Mines EastIronPast Producer
Norris MineIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in Dent 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
Short Bend3.2 miles18
Cooksey3.6 miles19
Howes3.7 miles17
Mounce4.0 miles18
Boscobel (historical)6.0 miles20
Ark6.0 miles19
Salem6.1 miles17
Bangert6.1 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122542549The 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 749630. 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.