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Opportunity Farms, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Tom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65355. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw West quadrangle.

Opportunity Farms within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Opportunity Farms between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,130 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
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
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined281 acresMissouri Department of ConservationSHOCKMAN
12 August 1994Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation126550-00810-07062015-1705
6 April 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1992Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122650-00805-03052015-1545

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Opportunity Farms: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
Blackman MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Charles Millers LandIronPast Producer
Phillips QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Smith MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Tackner1.5 miles23
Bent Tree Harbor2.0 miles23
Valley View2.5 miles23
Teal Bend3.7 miles22
Cold Springs4.0 miles23
Warsaw4.1 miles23
Racket4.5 miles22
Wisdom4.7 miles23

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 Q7098591The 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 738037. 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.