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Latham Mill, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65667. It stands on Slickrock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fuson quadrangle.

Latham Mill within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Latham Mill between 1992 and 2014, burning about 184 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 burning16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
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 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 August 1993Debris and open burning28 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 1992Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 March 2000Debris and open burning11 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Latham Mill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wright 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
Rayborn2.1 miles17
Talmage2.3 miles16
Grimes Mill2.5 miles16
Rail4.6 miles17
Owens4.6 miles13
Dawson4.7 miles17
Green Mountain4.9 miles17
Graff6.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122549663The 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 741003. 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.