Saint George, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Elk Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65667. The Survey maps it on the Competition quadrangle.

Saint George within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1931 USGS Manes quadrangle1:48000
1941 USGS Manes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Manes quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Competition quadrangle1:24000
2004 USGS Competition quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Saint George between 1992 and 2016, burning about 321 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	22
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
31 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 August 1993	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
13 August 2014	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 1998	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
21 April 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 April 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	21 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright 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
Jerktail	3.0 miles	17
Durbin	3.2 miles	12
Burney Ford	3.9 miles	17
Manes	4.0 miles	17
Maines	4.2 miles	17
Smittle	4.5 miles	12
Fuson	4.5 miles	16
Grimes Mill	4.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 752001. 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.