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Mill Spring, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mill Spring Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63952. It lies near Kenny Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mill Spring quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Mill Spring within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Mill Spring fell from 189 to 159 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010189
2020159-30 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Mill Spring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestTWIN POND ROAD
14 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220568-02220-07142020-2012
8 April 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1992Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Mill Spring: 16 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
UnknownManganesePast Producer
Armstrong MineIronPast Producer
Cedar Bay MineIronPast Producer1882, 1888
Cedar Bay MineIronPast Producer
Christman MineIronPast Producer
Clarkson BankIronPast Producer
Eads BankIronProspect
Early BankIronOccurrence
Early BankIronProspect
Embree LandIronOccurrence

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
Leeper1.6 miles18
Gaylor2.9 miles18
Chilton (historical)3.6 miles17
Barlow (historical)5.0 miles17
Kerrigan (historical)5.6 miles17
Beckville5.7 miles18
Piedmont6.4 miles18
Dees Town7.5 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on Mill SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2098063The 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 722359. 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.