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Orearville, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65349. The Survey maps it on the Slater quadrangle.

Orearville within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Orearville between 1993 and 2017, burning about 233 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use83 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 September 1999Smoking7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 July 1993Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Orearville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline 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
Slater3.2 miles18
Norton3.6 miles19
Montague Hill5.1 miles19
Gilliam5.6 miles18
Hardeman6.6 miles18
Wilton Springs7.1 miles18
Saline City7.3 miles16
Marshall7.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741124. 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.