Osage Heights, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Roscoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64781. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roscoe quadrangle.

Osage Heights within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1938 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Osage Heights between 1992 and 2016, burning about 5,478 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	390 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1,017 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	513 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	MAGGARD WIXTED
24 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	GREATHOUSE
2 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	27 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 April 2014	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Osage Heights: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Krifer Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Krifer Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Roscoe	0.7 miles	16
Monegaw Springs	3.5 miles	20
Oyer	3.6 miles	16
New Oyer	3.9 miles	16
Story (historical)	4.4 miles	16
Raney	4.8 miles	17
Crooks Springs	4.9 miles	16
Ebb (historical)	5.0 miles	19

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 Q122549942

The 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 756482. 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.