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Mount Moriah, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Trail Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64481. It stands on Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Moriah quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Mount Moriah within Harrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Mount Moriah fell from 87 to 75 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201087
202075-12 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mount Moriah between 1999 and 2018, burning about 23 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 burning2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177461-02319-06052018-1134
8 March 2015Smoking5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120251-02319-03082015-1319
22 March 2018Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177103-02319-03222018-2318
14 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120943-02319-03142015-1601
18 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177284-02319-02182018-2023
2 November 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mount Moriah: 10 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Livesay Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
LobbyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ray Arney QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stewart Whisler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Trail Creek Township QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Cainsville7.5 miles9
Bolton7.5 miles13
Ridgeway8.2 miles9
Gardner9.7 miles9
Blue Ridge12.1 miles13
Blythedale12.2 miles9
Melbourne13.0 miles13
Bethany13.1 miles12

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 Mount MoriahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958935The 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 722781. 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.