Rock Springs, Missouri

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.

• 1904 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1906 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rock Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 260 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Doe Run
• Hamilton Town
• De Lassus
• Farmington
• Loughboro
• Mineral City

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Rock Springs: 39 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in St. Francois County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756603. 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.