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McAllister Springs, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65333. It stands on May Branch. The Survey maps it on the Houstonia quadrangle.

McAllister Springs within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

10 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of McAllister Springs in 2014, burning about 118 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
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
29 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McAllister Springs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline 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
Sweet Springs3.5 miles23
Herndon5.8 miles16
Cretcher6.0 miles16
Marshall Junction7.7 miles18
Emma7.8 miles23
Wanamaker (historical)8.6 miles18
Blue Lick8.8 miles18
Elmwood9.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729339. 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.