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Mineral Springs City, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Piney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65483. The Survey maps it on the Houston quadrangle.

Mineral Springs City within Texas County

On record in Mineral Springs City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Mineral Springs City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 April 2000Debris and open burning5.0 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mineral Springs City: 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
M. Manier Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSurface
Mexico Plant + Main OfficeClayUnknown
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fred SuttonIronPast Producer1953
Rogers Mill LandIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

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
Houston0.8 miles19
Bucyrus3.6 miles14
Clara4.6 miles14
Samoa4.7 miles19
Venable5.4 miles21
Raymondville6.1 miles18
Lundy6.9 miles14
Yukon6.9 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122552911The 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 735333. 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.