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Lakeland, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63451. The Survey maps it on the Sue City quadrangle.

Lakeland within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lakeland between 2016 and 2017, burning about 2 acres 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation133642-06104-02272016-1454
31 October 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Every fire recorded in Shelby 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
Cherry Box2.9 miles8
Leonard5.1 miles8
Hagers Grove5.1 miles8
Kellerville8.9 miles8
Kirby9.1 miles9
Epworth9.5 miles9
Clarence10.6 miles11
Hebron12.9 miles9

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 LakelandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12893156The 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 733494. 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.