Round Bottom Ford, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Wheatland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65779. It lies near Mining Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Fristoe quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Round Bottom Ford within Hickory County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1887 USGS Warsaw quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Warsaw quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1945 USGS Fristoe quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Fristoe quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Fristoe quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Harry S Truman Reservoir quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Round Bottom Ford (historical) between 1992 and 2009, burning about 2,802 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	18
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	225 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1992	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 April 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 1992	Debris and open burning	113 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 March 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
4 March 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hickory County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Round Bottom Ford (historical): 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Lead. 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	Recorded
Seed Tick Diggings	Lead	Past Producer
Stearns Diggings	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Barytes Diggings	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Carter Diggings	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Baugh-Eads Mines	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Hinkle-White No 1 Diggings	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Hinkle-White No. 1	Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Barite
Hinkle-White No. 2	Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Barite
Unknown - Barite	Barium-Barite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hickory 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
White Cloud	2.0 miles	20
Phillips Ford (historical)	2.3 miles	20
Cross Timbers	5.9 miles	17
Hermitage	6.2 miles	20
Wheatland	6.7 miles	20
Quincy	7.3 miles	20
Carsons Corner	8.6 miles	20
Preston	9.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741215. 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.