Green Forest, 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.

• 1935 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1939 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1968 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:62500
• 1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Green Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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.

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:

• Cedar Valley
• Shady Dell
• Loma Linda
• Roxie (historical)
• Ashcroft Addition
• Hanleyville

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Green Forest: 17 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Butler 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 750136. 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.