French Village, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Linn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65101. It stands on Luzon Branch. The Survey maps it on the Loose Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

French Village within Osage County

On record in French Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Dauphine Hotellisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
Bonnots Mill Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Chamois quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1890 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Mokane quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Loose Creek quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of French Village (historical) between 1993 and 2018, burning about 55 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
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	178665-07607-04192018-0850
17 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	178663-07607-04172018-1319
17 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	178664-07607-04172018-1550
9 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	176463-01416-03092018-1630
22 March 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 March 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	45 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 November 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of French Village (historical): 18 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Miner Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Osage 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
Bonnots Mill	0.2 miles	19
Isbell (historical)	4.2 miles	19
Frankenstein	4.6 miles	19
Loose Creek	4.8 miles	19
Lisletown (historical)	6.1 miles	17
Luystown	7.3 miles	19
Saint Aubert	7.8 miles	21
Linn	8.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 738710. 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.