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Palo Pinto, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in White Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65338. It stands on Ditler Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lincoln NW quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Palo Pinto within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

86 words on this township

A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on White Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on White Township - 86 words.

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Palo Pinto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1
Natural1

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 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177866-00807-07212018-1138
6 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177166-00807-04062018-1052
6 April 2006Natural113 acresMissouri Department of ConservationBRUSH CREEK RANCH FIRE
28 April 2018Debris and open burning17 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177171-00807-04282018-1009
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178994-00807-04212019-1120
9 March 2018Debris and open burning5.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176302-00807-03092018-0000
8 March 2020Arson/incendiarism2.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190396-00807-03082020-2020
8 March 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190397-00807-03082020-2045

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Palo Pinto: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Moelman ProspectBarium-BaritePast Producer
Lincoln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northwest Quarry Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Palo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Santiago QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, 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
Santiago3.1 miles17
Macks Camp5.0 miles22
Racket6.4 miles22
Lincoln6.4 miles17
Teal Bend6.8 miles22
Brandon8.9 miles19
Bent Tree Harbor10.0 miles23
Tackner10.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Palo PintoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7128526The 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 741137. 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.