Saint John, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64672. The Survey maps it on the Saint John quadrangle.

Saint John within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1942 USGS Seymour quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Seymour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS St. John quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Saint John in 1992, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	1

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
17 March 1992	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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
Wyreka	4.1 miles	7
Midway	4.7 miles	7
West Liberty (historical)	4.8 miles	7
Powersville	5.9 miles	7
Galesburg	6.7 miles	7
Terre Haute	7.3 miles	7
Lucerne	7.6 miles	7
Quinn	9.2 miles	7

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 John	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28006002	The 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 741229. 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.