Hunter Crossing, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Apple Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65775. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brandsville quadrangle.

Hunter Crossing within Oregon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1943 USGS Thayer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Thayer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Thayer NW quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Brandsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Hunter Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 514 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 burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
23 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	84 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
13 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	129648-07523-09132015-0000
24 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	129647-07523-08242015-0000
22 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hunter Crossing: 14 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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	Recorded
Alvie Judd Jr. Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1932
Alvie Judd Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Ball Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1940
Beulah Jolliff Land	Iron	Prospect	1932
Dorshler and Tresch Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1950
Frank Judd	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
Haight Tract	Iron	Past Producer
Harold Dills Mine	Iron	Prospect	Surface
James L. Summers Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
Johnson Property	Iron	Occurrence	Surface

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Elliot Ford	2.6 miles	12
Rover	3.9 miles	12
Culp Ford	4.2 miles	12
Koshkonong	5.8 miles	13
Sloan Ford	9.2 miles	13
Thomasville	10.5 miles	13
Royal Oak	11.0 miles	12
Clifton	11.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740950. 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.