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North Jefferson, Missouri

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Summit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65043. It stands on Alton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson City quadrangle.

North Jefferson within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of North Jefferson between 2005 and 2020, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 June 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136691-01416-05152016-1212
5 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176616-01416-04212018-1349
15 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135353-01416-03082016-1617

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of North Jefferson: 20 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Capitol Sand Company Dredge No.2SilicaProducer
Capitol Sand Co DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leonard Barnhart Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holts Summit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jeff City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jeff-Cole Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jefferson City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kieselback QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
State Penitentiary QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Callaway 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
Cedar City1.0 miles26
Holts Summit3.2 miles22
Wainwright5.3 miles23
Lake Mykee Town5.8 miles22
Howards Bluff (historical)6.8 miles22
Bakersville (historical)7.9 miles23
Ellerslie (historical)8.7 miles22
New Bloomfield8.8 miles22

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 Q115160557The 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 741107. 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.