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Rock Prairie, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mooney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65622. It stands on Prater Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fair Grove quadrangle.

Rock Prairie within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Rock Prairie between 1995 and 2020, burning about 337 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 August 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk 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 Rock Prairie: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Tin Town2.1 miles20
Goodnight2.9 miles20
Pleasant Hope4.0 miles17
Rex4.4 miles17
Schofield4.8 miles17
Van7.0 miles16
Sunset7.3 miles16
Brighton7.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741207. 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.