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Saint John, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65556. The Survey maps it on the Conns Creek quadrangle.

Saint John within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Saint John between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,852 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation128775-08519-09212015-1445
2 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177292-02059-06152018-1214
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Saint John: 4 past producers. 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
Lentz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski 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
Richland2.6 miles14
Swedeborg3.1 miles14
Ozark Springs4.1 miles16
Kieseweltter Resort4.7 miles16
Turkey Ridge5.4 miles16
Shady Grove5.8 miles16
Stillhouse Springs6.5 miles16
Crocker7.4 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Saint JohnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28005947The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725763. 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.