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Green Town, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Thayer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65791. It stands on Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thayer quadrangle.

Green Town within Oregon County

On record in Green Town

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Green Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 850 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177597-02259-07042018-1845
30 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Green Town: 5 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Silver, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bowers S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Joe Kolosky ProspectLead, SilverProspect
E C Mainprize Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1943
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arthur ArnoldIronOccurrenceSurface
Clyde Led Be Her ProspectIronProspect
Gus Hubble ProspectIronProspect
Ragan MineIronPast Producer
Ray Gladden PropertyIronProspect1895
Rebecca Brazeal LandIronProspect1930

Every working recorded in Oregon 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
Old Town0.7 miles13
Thayer0.7 miles13
Shelby1.3 miles13
Allen Ford2.1 miles13
Clifton3.0 miles13
Sloan Ford4.6 miles13
Corona7.4 miles13
Midway7.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 718812. 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.