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Mine La Motte, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mine La Motte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63645. It stands on Sweetwater Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fredericktown quadrangle.

Mine La Motte within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Mine La Motte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 168 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
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177322-06205-07202018-1628
18 June 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 June 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation138072-06205-06172016-1758
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation124053-06205-05042015-1606
11 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177361-09435-05112018-1733
9 April 2020Debris and open burning3.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200543-06205-04092020-1308

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Mine La Motte: 67 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Iron. 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
Buckeye MineCobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, NickelPast Producer
Fox MineCobalt, Lead, Copper, NickelPast ProducerGalena
Fredericktown DepositsLead, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, CobaltPast ProducerREPLACEMENT, DISSEMINATED SULFIDES.
Hickory Nut No. 1 , 2 , 3Lead, Cobalt, CopperPast ProducerGalena
Madison MineLead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Iron, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite
Madison MineCobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1847, 1944
Manganese DepositsManganeseOccurrence
Mine La MotteLead, Silver, Copper, Cobalt, Zinc, NickelPast Producer1720
Mine La Motte #1Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, LeadPast Producer
Mine La Motte GroupCopper, Lead, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1720, 1827

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mine La Motte in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2009: 2 hail, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Mine La Motte-A tornado briefly touched down and traveled to the east. Several trees were blown over by the tornado before it lifted and dissipated.
March 2006Tornado (F1)Mine La Motte-The third tornado from the southeast Missouri supercell formed just southwest of Mine La Motte. The tornado traveled through the the west and north sections of the town producing F1 damage. A mobile home was destroyed, a barn was damaged, a metal outbuilding was destroyed, a barn damaged and a number of trees were either split or uprooted. The tornado continued northeast causing tree damage before crossing into extreme southeast St. Francois County near Little Peg Knob Mountain.
April 2003HailMine La Motte-Storm spotters reported nickel size hail.
March 2006HailMine La Motte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Junction City2.7 miles17
Catherine Place3.3 miles17
Fredericktown3.9 miles17
Cobalt Village4.9 miles17
Millcreek6.2 miles17
Oak Grove6.3 miles19
Higdon6.7 miles20
Hahns Mill8.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 751110. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.