Prohibition City, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Middlefork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64456. The Survey maps it on the Grant City quadrangle.

Prohibition City within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1942 USGS Grant City quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Grant City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Grant City quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Maryville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Prohibition City between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,558 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	2

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
31 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 June 1992	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 May 1992	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 May 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 May 1992	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 May 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 May 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2014	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Prohibition City: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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, Dimension	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Worth 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
Worth	2.4 miles	12
Mount Waller	3.6 miles	12
Grant City	4.5 miles	12
Denver	4.7 miles	12
Oxford	7.2 miles	11
Allendale	7.5 miles	12
Irena	8.8 miles	13
Isadora	9.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739617. 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.