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High Point, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65018. It stands on Colburn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Olean quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

High Point within Moniteau County

On record in High Point

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of High Point between 1993 and 2019, burning about 154 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 March 1993Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 2014Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 February 1997Debris and open burning95 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179738-02626-12252019-1626

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moniteau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of High Point: 19 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite, Barium-Barite, 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
Beck MineZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Hardin MineBituminous, ZincPast Producer
High Point MineLead, Zinc, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Simpson MineBituminous, LeadPast Producer
Enloe MineBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Simmers Barite MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead BariteBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Moniteau 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
Corticelli3.9 miles18
Enon5.7 miles19
Latham7.2 miles17
California10.0 miles19
McGirk10.6 miles18
Fortuna12.4 miles18
Clarksburg12.7 miles18
Kliever15.4 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on High PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5756170The 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 719534. 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.