Prestonia, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lick Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65655. The Survey maps it on the Udall quadrangle.

Prestonia within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 13 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 Gainesville quadrangle1:62500
1934 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Udall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Ava quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Prestonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,526 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 were 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	22
Arson/incendiarism	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 August 1995	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 August 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2000	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 April 1993	Smoking	43 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Prestonia: 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone. 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
Unk	Stone	Unknown
Hulsenbeck Prospect	Lead, Zinc	Prospect
Otis Robbins	Lead, Zinc	Prospect
Whipple Claims	Lead, Zinc	Prospect

Every working recorded in Ozark 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
Howards Ridge	1.5 miles	13
Fay	3.0 miles	13
Mammoth	3.1 miles	14
Udall Landing	3.9 miles	13
Udall	5.3 miles	13
Hardenville	5.4 miles	13
Tecumseh	6.1 miles	13
Gainesville	7.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740577. 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.