Laura, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Canton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63435. The Survey maps it on the Canton quadrangle.

Laura within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 Kahoka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Canton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Laura between 1992 and 1999, burning about 500 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
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 1994	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 April 1994	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 February 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 November 1999	Debris and open burning	280 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
3 November 1996	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Laura: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Shannon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Derrahs	3.3 miles	16
Santuzza	3.7 miles	18
Benjamin	4.5 miles	16
Tully	7.1 miles	18
Canton	7.6 miles	18
Bunker Hill (historical)	7.8 miles	16
Monticello	9.2 miles	15
Ten Mile	10.2 miles	15

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 Laura	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985697	The 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 755596. 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.