Mathis, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65685. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo NW quadrangle.

Mathis within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1884 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1950 USGS Buffalo NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Buffalo NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mathis between 1994 and 2017, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
20 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	89 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 1997	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 March 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 December 1996	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
21 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 October 1995	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mathis: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Booth Shaft	Lead	Past Producer
James Evans Prospect	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead + Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead + Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas 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
Louisburg	2.9 miles	19
Pumpkin Center	5.3 miles	17
Reynolds	5.7 miles	19
Buffalo	6.6 miles	17
Wood Hill	6.9 miles	17
Urbana	8.3 miles	19
Cloverdale	9.5 miles	17
Dallion Ford (historical)	9.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740120. 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.