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Lamar Heights, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lamar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64759. The Survey maps it on the Lamar South quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Lamar Heights within Barton County

Population over time

2 figures

Lamar Heights fell from 178 to 170 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010178
2020170-8 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Lamar Heights between 1993 and 2019, burning about 384 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178090-00625-08062018-2145
31 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178089-00625-08022018-1627
16 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178091-00625-08162018-1448
10 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation189897-00625-06102019-1242
16 May 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178086-00625-04112018-0938

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton 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 Lamar Heights: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - Ss.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barton 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
Lamar1.1 miles16
Oakton3.9 miles16
Iantha5.5 miles16
Boston5.6 miles16
Esrom5.8 miles16
Kenoma6.5 miles17
Irwin6.6 miles16
Bushnell7.8 miles17

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 Lamar HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2225669The 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 720771. 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.