Lebo, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1984. It stands in South Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65775. It lies near Turkeypen Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Moody quadrangle.

Lebo within Howell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1944 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS West Plains SW quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Moody quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Lebo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,113 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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 burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	13
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
5 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
1 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	500 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lebo: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fletcher Carter Prospect	Iron	Past Producer	1900
M. H. Webb Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Prospect
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Prospect
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Virgil Lambeth	Iron	Occurrence	1910

Every working recorded in Howell 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
Moody	4.3 miles	13
Lanton	5.7 miles	13
China	6.3 miles	13
Mott (historical)	6.7 miles	13
Leota	6.9 miles	12
Amy	7.7 miles	12
South Fork	7.9 miles	13
Cornertown	8.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741008. 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.