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Ninnescah Park, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64740. It lies near Millers Island. The Survey maps it on the Ninnescah Park quadrangle.

Ninnescah Park within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Ninnescah Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,230 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony1
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
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined133 acresMissouri Department of ConservationKNISLEY SOUTH
15 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 July 2013Arson/incendiarism14 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresMissouri Department of ConservationHAY CREEK
24 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined354 acresMissouri Department of ConservationOSAGE POINT
11 April 1993Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ninnescah Park: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Davis Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Collins BankIronPast Producer
Greenwell BankIronPast Producer
Grover BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Baker (historical)1.5 miles19
Fox Run2.2 miles19
Browns Ford3.5 miles19
Chloe6.3 miles20
Iconium6.8 miles20
Lowry City6.8 miles20
Corbin (historical)8.5 miles20
Harper10.1 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122572281The 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 756446. 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.