Hico, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65590. It stands on Jones Branch. The Survey maps it on the Charity quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hico within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1884 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Charity quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Hico (historical) between 1994 and 2017, burning about 448 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	42 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 May 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	259 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	TURKEY BAIT FIRE
24 March 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 March 1997	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 March 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hico (historical): 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gabrielle Diggings	Lead	Past Producer
	Unknown	Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Spring Grove	2.1 miles	17
Gaunt Ford (historical)	2.3 miles	14
Charity	3.8 miles	17
Wall Street	4.0 miles	14
Cloverdale	4.6 miles	17
Handley	4.9 miles	14
Limekiln Ford (historical)	5.1 miles	14
March	5.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735007. 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.