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Gabriels Mills, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Fristoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65355. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw East quadrangle.

Gabriels Mills within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Gabriels Mills between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,160 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 burning17
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
25 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 2015Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation124270-00810-05012015-1530
22 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1994Debris and open burning70 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 1994Arson/incendiarism57 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Gabriels Mills: 11 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Blackman MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Hopkins DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Richwoods BankIronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-BariteBarium-Barite, LeadProspect
Unknown - Lead-BariteBarium-Barite, LeadProspect
Unknown - Lead-BariteBarium-Barite, LeadProspect
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Dell Junction1.4 miles23
Dell2.0 miles23
Whitakerville2.7 miles23
Pom-o-sa Heights2.8 miles23
Fairfield (historical)3.4 miles23
Blue Branch3.7 miles23
White Branch3.7 miles23
Majorville3.9 miles23

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 Q5516112The 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 738036. 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.