Riggs, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bourbon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65284. The Survey maps it on the Sturgeon quadrangle.

Riggs within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1917 USGS Sturgeon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Sturgeon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Bourbon township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 - Bourbon Township

The Shroyer Murder Case

A most horrible and at the same time a most interesting case of murder occurred in this township in the fall of 1876. The particulars, here given are taken from the Sturgeon Leader of August 5, 1882. The editor of the Leader, Mr. T. S. Carter, is better informed concerning the facts in the case than any other person, and was promi nent in cansino; the arrest of the alleo-ed murderer : -

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In the county-history sources

30,463 words on this township

History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Bourbon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Bourbon township is the northwest corner township of" Boone county. It comprises all of township 51, range 12, and township 51, range 13, and fractional township 51, range 14, - running to the Howard County line on the west, and to Centralia township on the east. It is bounded on the north by Randolph and Audrain counties, and on the south by Perche and Rocky Fork townships.

Passage source: History of Boone County, Missouri. Written and Comp. from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources; Including a History of Its Townships, Towns, and Villages. Together with a Condensed History of Missouri; the City of St. Louis ... Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Prominent Citizens .., published 1882.

It is stated that the first settler in this township was a man named Riggs, who located three miles south of where Sturgeon now stands^ and built a cabin, as early as the year 1818. This property now belongs to Mr. Daniel Mayer, of Sturgeon. Again it is asserted that

It is claimed that the first physician in this township was Dr. Wells. In the year 1843, a Dr. Taylor practiced in Pittsburg. The first house in the prairie below Sturgeon was built by W. D. Kelly on the northeast quarter of section 20, township 51, range 12, in the year 1837. Mrs, Elizabeth Kelly, wife of W. D. Kelly, is probably the oldest living female born in Boone county. She is the daughter of Zadok Riggs, and was born in the southern part of the county, not far from Providence, February 1, 1819.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Bourbon Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.

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 Riggs: 6 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Boone Quarries - Plant # 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Boone 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
Petersburg (historical)	1.9 miles	19
Rileysburg	2.6 miles	19
Middleton	4.4 miles	19
Perche (historical)	4.5 miles	19
Bourbon	5.0 miles	19
Rucker	5.5 miles	19
Sturgeon	5.5 miles	19
Minnie	6.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741199. 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.

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.