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House Springs, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in High Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63051. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the House Springs quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

House Springs within Jefferson County

On record in House Springs

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

10 surveys from 24 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

31 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of House Springs between 2003 and 2019, burning about 37 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
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
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of House Springs: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
House Springs MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
House Springs Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names House Springs in 2 storm reports in 1995: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995HailHouse Springs-Golf ball-size hail was reported at many locations with a 60 mph wind gust reported at Victoria by the county sheriff's department.
May 1995HailHouse Springs-Reported by the county sheriff's department and the public.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Scotsdale1.1 miles24
Rockford Beach1.4 miles24
Weber Hill1.9 miles24
Byrnes Mill2.1 miles24
Echo Lake Ranch3.2 miles24
Local3.7 miles21
Hoene Spring3.8 miles24
Byrnesville3.9 miles23

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 House SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471563The 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 719892. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.