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Lake Mykee Town, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65043. The Survey maps it on the New Bloomfield quadrangle. 350 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Lake Mykee Town within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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.

Fires near this place

44 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Lake Mykee Town between 1999 and 2020, burning about 106 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 June 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation123830-01416-05042015-0000
15 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136691-01416-05152016-1212
5 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176616-01416-04212018-1349
20 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178643-01416-04202019-1558

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Lake Mykee Town: 14 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickson PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Huesgens ProspectFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Holts Summit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bartlett BankIronPast Producer
Bloomfield BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Callaway 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Holts Summit2.7 miles22
New Bloomfield3.1 miles22
Ellerslie (historical)3.1 miles22
Howards Bluff (historical)3.4 miles22
Folsom4.8 miles24
Guthrie5.6 miles21
North Jefferson5.8 miles26
Dixie5.8 miles22

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 Lake Mykee TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2134672The 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 1669594. 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.