BlockRinehart, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Metz Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64778. The Survey maps it on the Metz quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1938 USGS Metz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Metz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Metz quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,657 words on this townshipHistory of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Metz Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Rinehart Christian Church. Rinehart Christian Church was organized »in 1872. The first members were J. R. Rinehart, M. AI. Summers, E. B. AYeyand, John Daniels, James Wilkins, Allen Summers, W. A. Flesher, M. A. Rinehart, J. J. Townsend, S. J. Baze, J. H. More, Joseph Rynard and wife, Mrs. Leah Town¬ send and Mrs. L. Price. The church building was erected in 1882 at a cost of $1,200.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.
Rinehart postoffice, located five miles southeast of Metz, is a trading and shipping point. J. H. Miller is the postmaster and merchant, and he also looks after the railroad business. Consid¬ erable grain and hay is shipped from Rinehart.
Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Rinehart between 2011 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 210529-10847-04082020-1830 |
| 23 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 February 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 400 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rinehart: 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 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stotesbury | 3.6 miles | 22 | |
| Wolfe (historical) | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Metz | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| Richards | 4.6 miles | 22 | |
| Temple (historical) | 4.7 miles | 20 | |
| Amos | 6.0 miles | 19 | |
| Blaine | 6.0 miles | 20 | |
| Hong | 6.0 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725312. 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.