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Peace Valley, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sisson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65775. It lies near Kenaga Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Peace Valley quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Peace Valley within Howell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Peace Valley between 1993 and 2016, burning about 448 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3

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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 April 1998Arson/incendiarism295 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135711-04631-04142016-1220
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism76 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Peace Valley: 10 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Calcium, Copper. 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
Gene Bay ProspectCopperPast Producer
Unknown - OnyxCalciumPast Producer
Elmer Barton MineIronPast Producer1910
Francis Pettijohn ProspectIronProspect
Henry MineIronPast Producer
Indian Ford BankIronPast Producer
Ruby Cunningham PropertyIronProspect1910
St Francis BankIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howell 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
White Church3.4 miles12
Chapel5.2 miles12
Fanchon5.7 miles12
Trask8.0 miles12
Mountain View8.5 miles12
Pomona9.7 miles14
Olden9.9 miles14
Hutton Valley10.1 miles14

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 Peace ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471262The 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 724138. 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.