Koeltztown, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65048. The Survey maps it on the Argyle quadrangle. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Koeltztown within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1888 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Meta quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Meta quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lake Of The Ozarks quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Argyle quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Koeltztown between 1992 and 2005, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 March 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 March 1992	Debris and open burning	97 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 November 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 November 1999	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 November 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Koeltztown: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Schlief Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Osage 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
Argyle	2.3 miles	17
Babbtown	5.2 miles	17
Freeburg	6.4 miles	17
Meta	6.6 miles	17
Folk	7.3 miles	17
Westphalia	8.4 miles	17
Gascondy	9.8 miles	17
Rich Fountain	9.9 miles	17

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Koeltztown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471585	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720683. 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.