BlockPrairie Ridge, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rockford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64671. The Survey maps it on the Elmira quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1924 USGS Polo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Saint Joseph quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Ridge between 1995 and 2018, burning about 272 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 July 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177894-08922-07222018-2047 |
| 7 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177623-02515-04112018-1535 |
| 3 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177335-08922-03032018-1214 |
| 17 March 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 15 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177617-02515-03152018-1800 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 738432. 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.