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Lakeview Heights, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Cole Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65338. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lakeview Heights quadrangle.

Lakeview Heights within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

In the county-history sources

445 words on this township

A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Cole Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Cole Township - 445 words.

Fires near this place

92 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview Heights between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,408 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 were 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2015Natural1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation129640-00806-09062015-1743
22 September 1999Debris and open burning537 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 August 1999Debris and open burning248 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178921-00808-06092019-1830
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179329-00805-06082019-2115
6 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation129030-00805-05062015-1705
4 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178757-00808-05042019-1800
4 May 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lakeview Heights: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Byler Branch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gun BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakeview Heights in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindLakeview Heights-Strong winds knocked down several trees and large tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Zora3.7 miles20
Hastain4.1 miles20
Lively4.2 miles20
Edmonson5.0 miles21
Walkers Corner6.1 miles20
Hilda7.3 miles21
Knobby8.0 miles20
Majorville8.0 miles23

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 Lakeview HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6479243The 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 720764. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.