Lon, Missouri

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.

• 1884 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000
• 1886 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1937 USGS Ozark quadrangle1:48000
• 1943 USGS Ozark quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Ozark quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Oak Grove Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Lon between 1992 and 2017, burning about 529 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• All
• Panther Valley
• Compton (historical)
• Henderson
• Rogersville
• Holman

Every fire recorded in Webster County

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

Every working recorded in Webster County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740506. 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.