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Lawrenceton, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63627. It lies near Pinhook Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lawrenceton quadrangle.

Lawrenceton within Ste. Genevieve County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lawrenceton between 1995 and 2020, burning about 39 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/undetermined6
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
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178140-09533-08082018-1050
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178131-09533-04212018-2040
13 March 1995Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190079-09502-02292020-0900
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresMissouri Department of Conservation241055-09502-11192020-2350
14 October 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179873-09502-01012020-1230

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lawrenceton: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Limestone, Dimension. 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 - Ls DimensionLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Byington QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Woodward + Turner ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawrenceton in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 1998Tornado (F1)Lawrenceton$60,000no account filed
March 2020HailLawrenceton-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindLawrenceton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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
Goose Creek Lake2.7 miles19
Rocky Ridge Ranch4.3 miles18
Kinsey4.6 miles18
Lake Forest Estates5.3 miles18
Bloomsdale5.5 miles19
Mill5.7 miles19
Valley View6.2 miles18
New Offenburg6.9 miles18

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 LawrencetonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16894007The 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 736314. 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.