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Fountain Farm, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63630. It lies near Long Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Point quadrangle.

Fountain Farm within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Farm between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,173 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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/undetermined74
Debris and open burning43
Arson/incendiarism21
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism22 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation128791-11043-09242015-1506
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation128792-11043-09242015-1214
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 85 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 85 workings within 5 miles of Fountain Farm: 58 past producers, 21 producers, 5 unknowns, 1 prospect. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Copper. 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
Bee and Scott DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
PotosiLead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, IronPast Producer1763
Bellefontaine MinesLeadPast Producer
Cannon MinesLeadPast Producer
Gulf ProspectLeadPast Producer
New DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Prairie DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Adelbert (historical)0.7 miles20
White (historical)0.7 miles20
Happy Hollow1.7 miles18
Cadet1.7 miles20
Shibboleth2.0 miles18
Mineral Point2.3 miles20
Frogtown2.5 miles21
French Town2.8 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122552176The 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 718123. 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.