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Peerless Park, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Meramec Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63088. It stands on Fishpot Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kirkwood quadrangle.

Peerless Park within St. Louis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Peerless Park between 2003 and 2014, burning about 32 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2003Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 March 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Peerless Park: 14 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kempf QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Osage Hills QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Louis 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
Valley Park0.4 miles22
Pettys Hill0.6 miles29
Ranken1.1 miles29
Twin Oaks1.5 miles22
Fern Glen2.0 miles29
Morschels2.2 miles29
Lincoln Beach2.4 miles29
Keyes Summit2.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756514. 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.