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Red Bank, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65608. It lies near Sixteenth Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Goodhope quadrangle.

Red Bank within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Red Bank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,522 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
13 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220622-03401-08132020-2108
19 July 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2000Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism19 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1994Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Red Bank: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Goodhope2.0 miles12
Arden3.3 miles12
Roy3.3 miles12
Arno3.4 miles13
Jackson Mill3.5 miles12
Merritt4.1 miles12
Old Merritt4.9 miles13
Ongo5.7 miles13

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 Red BankAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985012The 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 735818. 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.