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Huddleston, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Piney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65606. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.

Huddleston within Oregon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Huddleston between 1992 and 2014, burning about 493 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 April 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2014Debris and open burning18 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Huddleston: 11 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Zinc. 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
C.S.&R Zinc MineIron, ZincPast Producer
Hess Zinc MineIron, ZincPast Producer
Carson Iron MineIronPast Producer
Dewey Minich PropertyIronOccurrenceSurface
Doan-Ives Iron MineIronPast Producer
Drew Whitten MineIronProspect1945
Erman Mcgibney PropertyIronOccurrenceSurface
Freeman ProspectIronProspect
L.O. HuddlestonIronProspectSurface
Ridington BankIronProspect

Every working recorded in Oregon 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
Woodside2.2 miles12
Royal Oak2.6 miles12
Alton2.7 miles12
Greer4.8 miles14
Simpson5.4 miles13
Braswell6.1 miles13
Hollis6.5 miles13
Lulu6.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735184. 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.