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Monteith Junction, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Lone Oak Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64730. It stands on Ehart Branch. The Survey maps it on the Butler South quadrangle.

Monteith Junction within Bates County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Monteith Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation210518-00703-06172020-1935
10 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation200514-00703-05102020-1230
9 March 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation121778-00703-03092015-1530
7 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation121775-00703-03072015-1534
22 March 2015Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation121788-00703-03222015-1507
19 March 1994Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 January 2015Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation116990-00703-01212015-1348

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bates County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Monteith Junction: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
B + B Rock & Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bates Co #1 Butler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bates County Rock Phosphate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Batesco #1 PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Butler City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bates 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
Cornland2.7 miles17
Athol2.9 miles17
Nyhart3.6 miles17
Butler3.6 miles15
Peru (historical)4.5 miles14
New Home7.4 miles17
Passaic7.5 miles15
Virginia7.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122545566The 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 741081. 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.