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Hoffman Junction, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63628. The Survey maps it on the Bonne Terre quadrangle.

Hoffman Junction within St. Francois County

On record in Hoffman Junction

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 3 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hoffman Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261411-09432-09092020-1925
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261410-09432-09092020-2144
28 April 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136091-11043-04232016-1338
11 April 1993Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2020Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation261409-09432-04102020-1611
10 April 1992Natural3.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named
17 March 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Hoffman Junction: 62 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Copper. 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
Bonne TerreLead, Copper, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer1821
Bonne Terre MillDolomiteProducer
Bonne Terre MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1864, 1868
Bonne Terre Quarry and MillMagnesiteProducer
Crawley MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Flat River Sub-DistrictLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1742
Leadwood MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, Cobalt, NickelProducer1898, 1903
Leadwood PlantStoneProducer
Unknown - Clay KaolinKaolinPast Producer
Desloge MinesLead, CopperProducer1801

Every working recorded in St. Francois 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
Bonne Terre0.9 miles21
The Lead Belt0.9 miles21
East Bonne Terre1.7 miles21
Highley Heights2.9 miles21
Desloge3.1 miles21
Gumbo3.3 miles21
Huntington3.4 miles21
Settletown3.5 miles21

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 Q122566200The 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 756186. 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.