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Ectonville, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Platte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64068. The Survey maps it on the Kearney SW quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Ectonville within Clay 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.

Fires near this place

39 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Ectonville between 2004 and 2007, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony14
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
1 September 2007Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 May 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ectonville: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer
Dever QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Winner2.5 miles23
Arley3.1 miles23
Paradise4.6 miles37
Roosterville5.5 miles23
Smithville5.6 miles37
Kearney6.1 miles22
Chandler6.9 miles23
Nashua7.1 miles38

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 EctonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5334260The 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 717394. 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.