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Rabbitville, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kingston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63630. It stands on Salt Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tiff quadrangle.

Rabbitville within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Rabbitville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 502 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135363-11043-04042016-1443
2 April 1994Arson/incendiarism48 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 1994Smoking5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135855-11043-04142016-1317
12 April 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Rabbitville: 33 past producers, 11 producers, 5 unknowns, 2 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Barium-Barite, Lead, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Duclois DiggingsBarium-Barite, LeadUnknown
Elliot MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Bellefontaine MinesLeadPast Producer
Cannon MinesLeadPast Producer
Murphy's MineLeadPast Producer
Prairie DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadUnknown
Unknown - Lead FurnaceLeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead FurnaceLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cruise Mill0.8 miles18
Bliss1.5 miles18
Robidoux2.1 miles19
Cannon Mines2.5 miles18
Theabeau Town2.8 miles18
Fertile2.8 miles18
Racola2.9 miles19
Mud Town3.6 miles18

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 RabbitvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28095150The 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 736731. 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.