Moors, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Platte Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64474. The Survey maps it on the Perrin quadrangle.

Moors within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1925 USGS Plattsburg quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Perrin quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Moors in 1997, burning about 31 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 burning	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 March 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 January 1997	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Moors: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cameron Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cameron Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Everett Q #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Frye Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
O'Neil Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Maple Hill	1.5 miles	16
Osborn	2.9 miles	16
Braley	3.2 miles	16
West Keystone	3.6 miles	16
Perrin	4.1 miles	16
Keystone (historical)	4.5 miles	16
Delaney	6.2 miles	16
Turney	7.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741082. 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.