Lake, Missouri

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Chesterfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63017. The Survey maps it on the Chesterfield quadrangle.

Lake within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

1903 USGS O'Fallon quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1932 USGS Manchester NE quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1994 USGS Chesterfield quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lake between 2007 and 2008, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
29 June 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 November 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 October 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Lake: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Creve Coeur Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Crystal Springs Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fern Ridge Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Thompson and Gray Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Hine	0.3 miles	26
Benbush	1.5 miles	22
Fernridge	2.3 miles	22
Bellefontaine	2.4 miles	26
Chesterfield	3.2 miles	26
Altheim	3.7 miles	22
Loehr	4.6 miles	29
Vigus	4.9 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756270. 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.