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Red Point, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Dent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65439. The Survey maps it on the Viburnum West quadrangle.

Red Point within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Red Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,958 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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
Arson/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMark Twain National ForestLOG GAP RIDGE
1 September 2007Debris and open burning19 acresMark Twain National ForestBAY
1 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestRECYCLE
29 August 1995Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBLACKJACK
19 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use14 acresMark Twain National ForestBARB
11 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMark Twain National ForestPACK
6 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestBUICK
15 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Red Point: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Manganese, Magnesite, Arsenic, Aluminum, Molybdenum, Chromium, Lead, Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt, Vanadium, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Buick SmelterLead, Smelter, Silver, Zinc, Smelter, CopperPlant
Boss-BixbyCopper, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Manganese, Magnesite, Arsenic, Aluminum, Molybdenum, Chromium, Lead, Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt, Vanadium, SulfurProspect1956
Buick MineZinc, Lead, Cobalt, Silver, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProducer1960, 1969
Magmont MineLead, Cadmium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelProducer1962, 1968
Red Point Land Fe OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Bixby2.0 miles22
Buick3.0 miles20
Viburnum4.7 miles22
East End6.4 miles22
Good Water7.1 miles22
Goodland7.8 miles22
Redmondville9.6 miles20
Maxwells Mill10.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736605. 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.