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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.

High Place Lookout Tower within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

48 since 1992

Regional 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1995Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 August 1995Natural7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestNORTH FORK
28 July 2012Natural1,126 acresMark Twain National ForestPOTATO CAVE
16 July 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - BauxiteAluminumProspect
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Collins LandIronPast Producer
Fox MineIronPast Producer1910, 1943
J C Bond ProspectIronPast Producer
J.W. Youngblood ProspectIronOccurrence1910
Pratt LandIronProspect
South Missouri Land Co Number OneIronPast Producer
South Missouri Land Co Number TwoIronPast Producer
T A Manis ProspectIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ozark 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
Oak Mound2.3 miles14
Cross Roads3.4 miles14
Bird Springs4.3 miles14
Toccoa4.4 miles15
Dormis5.0 miles14
Dora5.0 miles15
Sycamore5.7 miles12
Althea6.0 miles14

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 Q122571687The 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.