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Monark Springs, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Granby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64850. The Survey maps it on the Neosho East quadrangle.

Monark Springs within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Monark Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 488 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179426-07334-09282019-0845
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179424-07334-09232019-1810
22 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 361 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 361 workings within 5 miles of Monark Springs: 360 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Booth Ryan & Co. MineLeadPast Producer
Cadmium MineZinc, CadmiumPast Producer
Old Devil MineZinc, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - Zn & Pb & CoalZinc, Lead, CoalPast Producer
Lt. George Chase ShaftZincPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - ZnZincPast Producer
Southwest Lime Co Mine & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Aroma1.4 miles16
Sweetwater2.9 miles16
Neosho4.1 miles16
Granby4.2 miles14
Christopher4.5 miles16
Cartmell (historical)5.2 miles11
Boulder City5.4 miles11
Granby City5.5 miles14

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 Monark SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6898198The 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 722519. 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.