BlockMiller Brothers, Missouri
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Ozark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64769. The Survey maps it on the Liberal 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
16 surveys from 26 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.
- 1884 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1886 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Fort Scott quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Ft Scott quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Liberal quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Liberal quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Liberal quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
75 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Miller Brothers (historical) between 2015 and 2020, burning about 546 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Crawford County | 017-085 |
| 27 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2015-16 |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-056 |
| 12 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-017 |
| 11 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 2018-09 |
| 11 April 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 2018-10 |
| 10 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 018-049 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740446. 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.