Fruitland, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Franklin No. 1 Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65648. The Survey maps it on the Fair Grove quadrangle.

Fruitland within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1884 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000
1886 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1947 USGS Strafford quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Strafford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Fair Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Fruitland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 579 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	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 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 September 2000	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 August 2018	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177744-03905-08062018-1034
4 August 1997	Smoking	46 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fruitland: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
Bullwinkle Mine	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Hickory Barren	2.9 miles	23
Alsup	3.9 miles	17
Fair Grove	4.4 miles	20
Avalon Park	4.6 miles	20
Ebenezer	5.2 miles	20
Bassville	6.2 miles	23
Pleasant Valley	6.9 miles	20
Heady	7.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 718268. 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.