BlockPreston, Missouri
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Preston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64755. The Survey maps it on the Neck City quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Neck City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,484 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Preston Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Preston Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Fires near this place
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Preston between 1996 and 2020, burning about 94 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 7.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230753-02439-09252020-1455 |
| 21 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230712-02439-09212020-1645 |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230707-04955-09202020-1920 |
| 19 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 29 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 31 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 200519-02439-07312019-1745 |
| 9 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 200518-02439-06092019-0840 |
| 30 June 2018 | Fireworks | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177195-04955-06302018-2059 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 65 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Preston: 64 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Quick Seven Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1870, 1920 | |
| Virginia Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | 1911, 1912 | |
| Anna Linda Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Big 4 Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Bull Dog Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Central Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Century Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Chapman Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Chrisman Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Preston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27985445 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 724915. 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.