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Lost Creek Landing, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lost Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63944. It stands on East Fork Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shook quadrangle.

Lost Creek Landing within Wayne 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Lost Creek Landing between 1992 and 2018, burning about 660 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Arson/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1

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 burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMark Twain National ForestHICKORY FLAT
1 May 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestD-HIGHWAY
4 April 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176614-11111-04202018-1315

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Lost Creek Landing: 13 past producers, 7 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Seminole Ag-Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
Unknown - Usfs LandLeadPast Producer
Unknown - Usfs LandSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bailey BankIronProspect
Jines BankIronProspect
Mason & Clarkson LandIronPast Producer
Mayberry TractIronOccurrence
Moss & Clarkson LandIronProspect
Neighbors LandIronProspect
Northwestern Consolidated Land # 1IronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Shook1.4 miles19
Chaonia (historical)3.7 miles14
Kime5.3 miles19
Ferrys (historical)5.8 miles14
Holliday Landing6.2 miles19
Wappapello6.3 miles14
McGee6.9 miles19
Taskee Station (historical)7.9 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122568090The 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 750866. 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.