Great Oaks, Missouri

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.

• 1903 USGS O'Fallon quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1941 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
• 1972 USGS Foristell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1979 USGS Foristell quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Great Oaks between 2005 and 2016, burning under an acre 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hickory Hollow
• Huntsdale
• Peine Woods
• Woodlands at Bear Creek
• Cimarron
• Crystal Creek

Every fire recorded in St. Charles County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Great Oaks: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Every working recorded in St. Charles County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2741773. 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.