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Midvale, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Carroll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65571. The Survey maps it on the Summersville quadrangle.

Midvale within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Midvale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 746 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
12 August 2019Debris and open burning8.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179448-10163-08122019-1835
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220572-10163-07152020-1515
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177258-10163-07152018-1456
14 July 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177257-10163-07142018-1101
1 May 2018Debris and open burning48 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177134-10163-05012018-2231
1 May 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Midvale: 4 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Lambert MineIronOccurrenceLimonite
Lilly Hollow MineIronPast Producer1907
Long and Colby BankIronPast ProducerLimonite
McKenzie Bank No. 2IronOccurrenceLimonite
Speer's MountainIronOccurrenceLimonite
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Wayne Iron and Lumber Company, Land No. 1.IronOccurrenceLimonite

Every working recorded in Texas 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
Eunice3.5 miles17
Summersville4.5 miles17
Hartshorn4.9 miles20
Nagle5.6 miles17
Big Creek6.3 miles17
Arroll7.2 miles19
Yukon7.6 miles18
Tyrone7.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 722295. 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.