BlockSalem Coffey P O and Station, Missouri
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64636. The Survey maps it on the Coffey quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1925 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1948 USGS Pattonsburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Coffey quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maryville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Salem township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Henry W. Githens
Was born in Decatur county, Indiana, in 1823, and is the son of Samuel and Jane Githens. His father was one of the pioneers of Indiana. Mr. Githens received a limited education in the schools of his native county. He moved to Daviess county, Missouri, in 1844, where he resided eight months, when he was attacked with the "Grand River Ague," which so discouraged him that he left Missouri in disgust, returning to Indiana, where he remained five years, when he again moved to Missouri, and has lived here most of the time sinee, and owns a fine farm of 160 acres.
In the county-history sources
3,987 words on this townshipThe History Of Daviess County, Missouri (Birdsall & Dean, 1882), published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Salem Township covers position and description, histery, organization, statistics, ete, township officers, pleasant ridge baptist church, bethel church (methodist church south).
Read the chapter on Salem Township - 3,987 words.
Fires near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Salem Coffey P O and Station between 1997 and 2013, burning about 108 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Salem Coffey P O and Station: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coffey | 0.2 miles | 16 | |
| Cypress | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Madelaine (historical) | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Pattonsburg | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Jameson | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bancroft | 7.9 miles | 13 | |
| Old Pattonsburg | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Civil Bend | 8.9 miles | 15 |
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 Q122550230 | 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 725942. 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.