House Creek, Missouri

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.

• 1928 USGS Cardareva quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Cardareva quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Van Buren North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Spring Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1997 USGS Van Buren North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of House Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 716 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Chicopee
• South Van Buren
• Van Buren
• Fremont

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of House Creek: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Carter County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 719890. 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.