Rail, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65711. It stands on Tom Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle.

Rail within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1931 USGS Manes quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS Manes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Manes quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Dawson quadrangle1:24000
2004 USGS Dawson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rail between 1992 and 2001, burning about 167 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 August 1997	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 April 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 March 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 March 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rail: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wright 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
Graff	1.7 miles	17
Green Mountain	2.7 miles	17
Rayborn	2.8 miles	17
Dawson	3.0 miles	17
Latham Mill	4.6 miles	16
Grimes Mill	4.9 miles	16
Astoria	5.6 miles	17
Antler (historical)	5.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740346. 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.