Johnson Ford, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65580. It stands on Jack Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vienna quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Johnson Ford within Maries County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1937 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:48000
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Ford (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 197 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
13 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 July 1992	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 April 1995	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 April 1992	Natural	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 April 1992	Natural	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maries County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Johnson Ford (historical): 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Barium-Barite, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - Limestone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tailings Pond -Barite -Superior Min	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Unknown - Fe	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Wolf-Superior Minerals Mine	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Maries 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
James Brothers	1.9 miles	17
Henderson Ford (historical)	3.4 miles	18
Vienna	4.8 miles	17
Bend	4.9 miles	18
Gaines Ford (historical)	5.0 miles	17
Stickney	5.1 miles	17
Davis Ford	5.4 miles	17
Lindell	5.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740969. 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.