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Mount Zion, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64740. The Survey maps it on the Lowry City quadrangle.

Mount Zion within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Mount Zion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,516 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Smoking1

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
8 September 2013Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined133 acresMissouri Department of ConservationKNISLEY SOUTH
18 July 2013Arson/incendiarism14 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresMissouri Department of ConservationHAY CREEK
29 April 2018Arson/incendiarism44 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176887-04200-04292018-2000
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined403 acresMissouri Department of ConservationANDERSON POINT
14 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 1992Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mount Zion: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron. 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
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Davis Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Kneiskey Ls. MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ss.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Brownington4.9 miles20
Gaines5.0 miles18
Finey5.0 miles19
Consville (historical)5.0 miles20
Coal7.6 miles18
Deepwater7.7 miles18
Tightwad8.0 miles18
Sparrow9.2 miles18

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 ZionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985270The 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 722924. 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.