Mountain Dale, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Hazelwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65746. The Survey maps it on the Seymour quadrangle.

Mountain Dale within Webster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1939 USGS Fordland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Fordland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Seymour quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Dale between 1999 and 2002, burning about 136 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
11 September 2000	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 February 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	90 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 February 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 November 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster 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 Mountain Dale: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Star Mines	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Hazelwood Diggings	Lead	Past Producer
Trusty Mines	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown-Lead	Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Webster 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
Waldo	0.5 miles	12
Seymour	3.0 miles	14
Crabbs (historical)	4.4 miles	12
Diggins	5.4 miles	14
Finley Falls	5.7 miles	14
Sarvis Point	7.3 miles	14
High Prairie	7.4 miles	13
Hiatt (historical)	8.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 734977. 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.