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New Bourbon, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Ste. Genevieve Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63670. It lies near Bois Brule Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Sainte Genevieve quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

New Bourbon within Ste. Genevieve County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 19 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of New Bourbon between 2018 and 2020, burning about 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use13 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230754-09540-09302020-1250
14 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179040-09540-07142019-0002
11 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230661-09540-05112020-1925
1 December 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation251196-09540-12012020-1440
12 October 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230840-09540-10122020-2345
19 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176097-80001-01192018-1251

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of New Bourbon: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, 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
Inkley Marble QuarryMarble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Naeger BankIronPast Producer
Peerless Mine and MillCalciumProducer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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
Saint Jude Acres1.3 miles19
Quarry Town1.7 miles19
Hicks2.3 miles24
Sainte Genevieve2.4 miles19
Mosher3.3 miles19
Thomure4.3 miles19
Little Rock Landing4.3 miles19
Marlo4.9 miles19

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 New BourbonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14704458The 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 741096. 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.