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Ore, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Peculiar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64080. The Survey maps it on the Harrisonville quadrangle.

Ore within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

195 words on this township

History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Peculiar Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Peculiar Township - 195 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ore in 2003, burning under an acre 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
Debris and open burning1

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
21 January 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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 Ore: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Harrisonville PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Limpus Harrisonville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls. QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass 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
Huber2.7 miles14
Gowdy3.3 miles15
Coleman3.6 miles16
Harrisonville5.2 miles14
Wyoming (historical)5.3 miles15
Pleasant Hill5.4 miles15
Old Peculiar5.7 miles14
Baldwin Park6.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741123. 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.