Emmett, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Rock Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65646. The Survey maps it on the Everton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Emmett within Dade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1888 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1956 USGS Everton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Emmett (historical) in 1997, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 February 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Emmett (historical): 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Duncan Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Williams Mine	Copper	Past Producer
Compton Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead	Lead	Past Producer
Parks Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dade 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Everton	2.8 miles	16
Comet	5.0 miles	16
Dilday Mill	6.8 miles	15
Pilgrim	6.8 miles	15
Snadon Ford	7.3 miles	15
Turnback (historical)	7.4 miles	15
Fiddlers Ford	8.7 miles	17
Pennsboro	9.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740058. 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.