Sargent, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63801. The Survey maps it on the Sikeston North quadrangle.

Sargent within Scott 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.

1931 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1934 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Sikeston North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sargent in 2019, burning about 570 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	570 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179436-10083-09082019-1105
4 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	179342-06732-07042019-1525

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sargent: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hedrick Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Scott 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
Miner	1.8 miles	14
Sikeston	4.7 miles	14
Diehlstadt	5.6 miles	11
Porter	5.7 miles	11
McMullin	7.1 miles	14
Blodgett	7.2 miles	20
Browns	7.2 miles	14
Haywood City	9.2 miles	20

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 Sargent	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28056246	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 741242. 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.