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Saint Louis Place, Missouri

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in St. Louis City. It lies in ZIP code area 63106. It lies near Big Mound (historical). The Survey maps it on the Granite City quadrangle.

Saint Louis Place within St. Louis city

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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.

In the county-history sources

163,964 words on this township

Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861, published 1861; Saint Louis : the Future Great City of the World : with Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men and Women of St. Louis and Missouri, published 1876; Child's Geography and History of St. Louis City, published 1886; Road and Hand-book of the Missouri Division, Including Road-maps of the Riding Districts of St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Sedalia, Springfield, Warrensburg, Etc, published 1895 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on St. Louis City covers the township.

Read the chapter on St. Louis City - 163,964 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Saint Louis Place between 2006 and 2011, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 December 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources79TH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Louis city

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Saint Louis Place: 53 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. 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
(Facility) Sauget Zinc RefineryZinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 1Clay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hypothetical Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProspectUnderground
Madison PlantThoriumProducer
Parker-Russell Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory), CoalPast Producer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral PigmentsIronProducer
Guelker Mine Number FourClayPast Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No 4ClayPast Producer
Mine Number 7ClayPast Producer
Mine Number FourClayPast Producer

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
Old North Saint Louis0.5 miles28
Hyde Park0.8 miles28
Carr Square0.8 miles28
Near North Riverfront1.0 miles28
Columbus Square1.3 miles28
Covenant Blu-Grand Center1.5 miles28
College Hill1.5 miles28
Greater Ville1.6 miles28

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.

Wikidata item Q122569526The 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 2469207. 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.