BlockForker, Missouri
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64651. It stands on Little Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sumner quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Jefferson township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Crimes And Casualties
As early as 1843 a very unfortunate accident happened near Myle's railb on Locust Creek. Two boys, one white, and bound to Dr. Dry den, the other a colored boy, a slave owned by the Doctor, went in swimming and were both drowned. They were not far from eighteen years of age. How it'happened is not known, unless taken with cramps.
In the county-history sources
57,623 words on this townshipThe History of Linn County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Jefferson Township covers soil, timber, streams, and undulating prairies, building stone, potter's a)id brick claij, her rise and progress, a genuine snake stori/, old settlers, what they wear and how they lire.
Read the chapter on Jefferson Township - 57,623 words.
Fires near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Forker between 1999 and 2019, burning about 338 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178654-00000-04102019-0900 |
| 18 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 264 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176720-05827-03142018-1500 |
| 8 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 31 October 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178030-05827-10312018-1415 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laclede | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Fountain Grove | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Brookfield | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Meadville | 7.6 miles | 14 | |
| Linneus | 11.0 miles | 11 | |
| Saint Catharine | 11.5 miles | 11 | |
| Marceline | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lowell | 12.8 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739989. 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.