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Paw Paw, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Pleasant Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63556. It stands on Paw Paw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milan SE quadrangle.

Paw Paw within Sullivan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Paw Paw between 1992 and 2019, burning about 58 acres 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179607-10547-03222019-1535
28 February 1992Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 February 2002Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Paw Paw: 1 past producer. 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sullivan 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
Cora2.6 miles7
Reger6.7 miles8
Owasco6.7 miles7
Bute7.3 miles8
Milan7.9 miles8
Sorrell9.3 miles8
Mystic9.4 miles7
Parsons9.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741140. 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.