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Gravel Hill, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Kinder Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63764. The Survey maps it on the Burfordville quadrangle.

Gravel Hill within Cape Girardeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Gravel Hill between 1997 and 2019, burning about 8 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179143-01617-09162019-1057
31 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179074-01624-04032019-0005
3 January 2018Debris and open burning5.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176607-00915-01032018-0130

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gravel Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Thomas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau 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
Burfordville1.9 miles18
Reynolds Ford4.9 miles18
Hartle Ford5.3 miles18
Crump5.5 miles18
Tilsit5.5 miles19
Millersville5.6 miles18
Houck6.2 miles19
Stroderville (historical)7.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 718736. 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.