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Lone Elm, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Galena Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64801. It stands on Joplin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Joplin West quadrangle.

Lone Elm within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

121 words on this township

The History of Jasper County, Missouri : Including a Condensed History of the State, a Complete History of Carthage and Joplin, Other Towns and Townships : Together with Numerous Portraits of Prominent Men : Cuts of Elegant Residences and Public Buildings : a Sectional Map of the County : Biographical Sketches of Many Enterprising Farmers, Merchants, Mechanics, Professional, and Business Men : the Constitution of the State : an Abstract of Laws : an Elaborate History of Jasper County - Its Topography, Natural History, Pioneers, Organization, Political History, Courts and Bar, Religious, Educational, Medical, Agricultural, Mining, and Horticultural, Its Commercial and Business Interests, Etc, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Galena Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Galena Township - 121 words.

Fires near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lone Elm between 1996 and 2019, burning about 17 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 August 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178497-07341-04102019-1401
13 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 February 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation133795-04912-02202016-1333

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 1,276 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1,276 workings within 5 miles of Lone Elm: 1,271 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Klondike PitClayPast Producer
Sucker Flats PitClayPast Producer
Unknown - Zn/PbZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Zn/PbZinc, LeadPast Producer
Independent Gravel CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mattes Bros. Chat PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Webb City Chat PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Griesmer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Opossum Hollow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Tuckahoe1.0 miles18
West Joplin2.1 miles19
Airport Drive2.1 miles18
Chitwood2.1 miles19
Joplin2.2 miles19
Thoms2.6 miles18
Oakland Park2.6 miles19
East Joplin3.0 miles19

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 Lone ElmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985434The 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 729923. 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.