Moores Switch, Missouri

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 3 records

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

• Hamilton-Brown Shoe Factorylisted 2002 · 0.7 miles away
• Wright Brothers Mule Barnlisted 2007 · 0.9 miles away
• David Guitar Houselisted 1993 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1886 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1935 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000
• 1940 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1982 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Missouri township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882; The Bench and Bar of Boone County, Missouri; Including the History of Judges, Lawyers, and Courts, and an Account of Noted Cases, Slavery Litigation, Lawyers in War Times, Public Addresses, Political Notes, Etc, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Moores Switch in 2005, burning under an acre 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Columbia
• Deer Park
• Elkhurst
• Harg
• Pierpont
• Smithton (historical)

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Moores Switch: 16 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Boone County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 759403. 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.