High Place Lookout Tower, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65790. It lies near Pond Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cureall NW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Cureall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1946 USGS Cureall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Cureall NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ava quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 2004 USGS Cureall NW quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of High Place Lookout Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,846 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 24 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 August 1995 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | NORTH FORK |
| 28 July 2012 | Natural | 1,126 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | POTATO CAVE |
| 16 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of High Place Lookout Tower: 10 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Bauxite | Aluminum | Prospect | ||
| Unknown - Lead | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Collins Land | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Fox Mine | Iron | Past Producer | 1910, 1943 | |
| J C Bond Prospect | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| J.W. Youngblood Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | 1910 | |
| Pratt Land | Iron | Prospect | ||
| South Missouri Land Co Number One | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| South Missouri Land Co Number Two | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| T A Manis Prospect | Iron | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Mound | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Cross Roads | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Bird Springs | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Toccoa | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Dormis | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Dora | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Sycamore | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Althea | 6.0 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122571687 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 750317. 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.










