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Piney Park, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Central Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63077. The Survey maps it on the Saint Clair quadrangle.

Piney Park within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Piney Park between 1992 and 2017, burning about 438 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
2 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 March 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 November 1995Smoking4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 November 1995Debris and open burning16 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 October 1999Debris and open burning360 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Piney Park: 38 past producers, 4 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Barium-Barite, Iron, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc. 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
Copper HollowCopper, IronPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vieman MinesLead, Zinc, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Evans MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Fisher Clay BankFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Hibbard BankFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Jans MineLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Meramec Aggregates Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Virginia MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Ba/PbLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Piney Park in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPiney Park-Thunderstorm winds snapped off a large tree. The tree pulled down a nearby power line.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Parkway2.9 miles21
Lake Saint Clair3.3 miles21
Plum Ford3.3 miles21
Saint Clair3.7 miles21
Mount Hope3.7 miles20
George (historical)3.9 miles19
Huff5.0 miles19
Anaconda5.2 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 731633. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.