Filer, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65717. It lies near Tick Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Norwood quadrangle.

Filer within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1951 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Norwood quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Filer between 1992 and 2015, burning about 540 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 August 1997	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
25 April 1998	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Filer: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur-Pyrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hinote Prospect	Sulfur-Pyrite	Prospect

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Denlow	4.0 miles	14
Coldspring	4.1 miles	13
Olathia	5.6 miles	13
Brushyknob	5.9 miles	13
Prior	6.3 miles	14
Goodville	6.3 miles	14
Champion	6.9 miles	13
Vanzant	7.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740504. 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.