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Dunksburg, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Grover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65351. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Springs quadrangle.

Dunksburg within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the county-history sources

94 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Grover Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Grover Township - 94 words.

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Dunksburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 296 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179462-05130-09272019-1445
17 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 1992Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 March 2019Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178409-00000-03252019-1500
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dunksburg: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Ss.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson 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
Valley City6.5 miles23
Knob Noster9.7 miles23
Carbon Hill10.1 miles23
Mount Olive10.5 miles22
Montserrat10.8 miles23
Fayetteville13.8 miles19
Hoffman14.0 miles19
Blackwater (historical)15.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729728. 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.