Poor Farm, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Moreland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63736. The Survey maps it on the Morley quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Poor Farm within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

1934 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Morley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Morley quadrangle1:62500
1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000

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 Poor Farm (historical) between 1992 and 2017, burning about 20 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 burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 July 1996	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 July 1996	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 June 1997	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 December 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Poor Farm (historical): 17 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Crm Sand Pit & Plant	Silica	Producer
Aba Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Benton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lambert	1.5 miles	20
Benton	1.9 miles	20
New Hamburg	3.9 miles	21
Kenton (historical)	4.4 miles	20
Morley	5.9 miles	20
Zewapeta	6.0 miles	22
Commerce	6.1 miles	22
Bleda	6.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740479. 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.