Jobe, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jobe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65690. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Myrtle quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jobe 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.

1944 USGS Couch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Couch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Myrtle quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Jobe (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177402-07526-08122018-1910
4 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 May 2015	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	123610-07525-05022015-1405
9 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	178515-07526-04092019-1100
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Jobe (historical): 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 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
Ab and Carl Johnson	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
Carl Johnson Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
Mrs. Alma Overstreet	Iron	Past Producer	1944
Mrs.Ella Roberts Property	Iron	Past Producer	1936
Roy Leamon Property	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
Willard Williams Mine	Iron	Past Producer

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
Jobe	1.0 miles	12
Deckard-Y	2.8 miles	12
Garfield	2.9 miles	12
Billmore	3.3 miles	14
Guiteau	3.5 miles	12
Myrtle	5.3 miles	12
Riverton	5.7 miles	14
Couch	6.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735213. 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.