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Good Water, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Dent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65565. It lies near Payne Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Viburnum East quadrangle.

Good Water within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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 Good Water between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,504 acres in total. None started naturally. 74 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
Arson/incendiarism74
Debris and open burning39
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresMark Twain National ForestGOODWATER FIRE
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresMark Twain National ForestMAXWELL FIRE
29 August 1995Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBLACKJACK
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestAIRPORT ROAD
24 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution12 acresMark Twain National ForestCOUNTY ROAD 72
24 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMIDDLE FORK
21 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestTRACTOR
14 July 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestSUMMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Good Water: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Lead, 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
Central ServicesLeadUnknown
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Burt MineClayPast Producer
Love BankIronPast Producer
Montana MineClayPast Producer
Rogers BankIronOccurrence
Sligo Iron MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron 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
East End2.7 miles22
Maxwells Mill4.0 miles20
Viburnum4.7 miles22
Bixby5.2 miles22
Goodland5.8 miles22
Enough (historical)6.9 miles20
Red Point7.1 miles22
Redmondville7.3 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 750071. 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.