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Evansville, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Agency Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64507. It stands on Riley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Agency quadrangle.

Evansville within Buchanan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

5,911 words on this township

The History of Buchanan County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Buchanan County in the Late War, General and Local Statisics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Buchanan County, Etc., Etc, published 1881; History of Buchanan County and the City of St. Joseph and Representative Citizens : 1826 to 1904, published 1904 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Agency Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Agency Township - 5,911 words.

Fires near this place

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Evansville between 2018 and 2020, burning about 105 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177936-01110-09112018-1615
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176954-01180-04302018-1750
28 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179468-01110-04282019-2110
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177644-01110-04102018-1806
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176120-01180-03082018-1243
14 March 2018Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176118-01180-03142018-1336
13 March 2018Arson/incendiarism6.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176116-01180-03132018-1626
13 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177371-01110-03132018-1326

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Buchanan 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
Garrettsburg1.2 miles15
Saxton2.7 miles18
Agency3.7 miles15
Matney4.1 miles18
Easton4.6 miles15
Stockbridge (historical)4.8 miles17
Frazier5.4 miles15
Richie5.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 717676. 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.