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River aux Vases, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Beauvais Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63670. It stands on Flint Bottom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minnith quadrangle.

River aux Vases within Ste. Genevieve County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of River aux Vases between 2018 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
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
30 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use13 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230754-09540-09302020-1250
18 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178129-09533-04182019-1945
1 December 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation251196-09540-12012020-1440
25 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178095-09533-01252018-1135

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of River aux Vases: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Lead, Copper, Iron, Lead, Zinc. 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
Peter Naeger ProspectIronPast Producer
Sainte GenevieveCopper, Silver, Iron, LeadPast Producer1863, 1876, 1916
Unknown - Lead-Zinc-Copper-IronCopper, Iron, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Stone Misc DimStone, DimensionPast Producer
Ste. Genevieve Mines (Cornwall, Chicago, Swansea, Crow, Herzog)Copper, LeadPast Producer1863, 1876
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Cornwall Copper MineCopperPast Producer1863, 1876
Cornwall Copper MinesCopperPast Producer
Golden Vein QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names River aux Vases in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2021HailRiver Aux Vases-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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
Copper Mine2.8 miles18
Ozora4.2 miles19
New Offenburg5.1 miles18
Marlo5.3 miles19
Weingarten5.5 miles18
Zell5.8 miles18
Minnith6.1 miles19
Quarry Town7.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 751894. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.