Hord, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Cote Sans Dessein Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65080. The Survey maps it on the Mokane West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hord within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1890 USGS Chamois quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1890 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1945 USGS Mokane quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Mokane West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2000 USGS Mokane West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hord (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 6 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 August 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	179123-07617-08092019-0811
8 November 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hord (historical): 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Fire Clay (Refractory), Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Laughlin Bros Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Murphy's Hill Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Old Diggings	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay Pits	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Callaway 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
Effie (historical)	1.9 miles	20
Tebbetts	2.2 miles	19
Liberty	2.5 miles	20
Browns Ford	3.6 miles	20
Cote Sans Dessein (historical)	4.7 miles	19
Howards Bluff (historical)	4.7 miles	22
Mokane	4.9 miles	21
Dixie	5.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 753759. 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.