Roxie, 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.

• 1935 USGS Acorn quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Naylor quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Naylor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Fairdealing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Roxie (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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.

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:

• Lone Hill
• Ashcroft Addition
• Cedar Valley
• Green Forest
• Harviell
• Kelly Town

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Roxie (historical): 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Iron. 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 Butler 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 735292. 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.