BlockMadelaine, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64642. The Survey maps it on the Jameson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:48000
- 1948 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Jameson quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Washington township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Murder
The only murder to record in this township was that of James Marrifield, who was stabbed by a dirk-knife in the hand of Augustus Killough, from which he died the ninth day after the eutting. The affair happened at the house of Joseph Landers, where a neighborly dance was going on. There had been some ill-feeling between the young men.
In the county-history sources
6,818 words on this townshipThe History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Washington Township covers boundaries, timber, proirvies and streams, population, old settlers, some facts, churches, pilot grove chureh.
Read the chapter on Washington Township - 6,818 words.
Fires near this place
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Madelaine (historical) between 1997 and 2002, burning about 74 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 March 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Madelaine (historical): 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bancroft | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Coffey | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Salem Coffey P O and Station | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Jameson | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Cypress | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Pattonsburg | 10.6 miles | 16 | |
| Jamesport | 11.5 miles | 10 | |
| Blake | 12.1 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740192. 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.