Iron Mountain, 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.

• 1937 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:48000
• 1945 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1946 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:62500
• 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
• 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Graniteville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Iron Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 216 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.

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:

• Iron Mountain Lake
• Bismarck
• Lopez
• Mineral City
• Doe Run
• Knob Lick

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Iron Mountain: 23 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Iron, Lead, 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 St. Francois County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756212. 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.