Old Peculiar, Missouri

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.

• 1887 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1894 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
• 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Peculiar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Old Peculiar: 7 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Cass County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 723771. 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.

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.