Penrose, Missouri

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.

• 1888 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:62500
• 1933 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1935 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1940 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1993 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000
• 1998 USGS Granite City quadrangle1:24000

Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861, published 1861; Saint Louis : the Future Great City of the World : with Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men and Women of St. Louis and Missouri, published 1876; Child's Geography and History of St. Louis City, published 1886; Road and Hand-book of the Missouri Division, Including Road-maps of the Riding Districts of St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Sedalia, Springfield, Warrensburg, Etc, published 1895 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Penrose in 2006, burning under an acre 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Academy
• Baden
• Cabanne Place
• Carr Square
• Central West End
• Cheltenham

Every fire recorded in St. Louis city

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Penrose: 50 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Clay, 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.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2469206. 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.