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Service, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Courtois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65565. It lies near Fort Diggings Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Huzzah quadrangle.

Service within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Service between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,080 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning10
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
30 April 1997Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresMark Twain National ForestPOWERLINE
25 April 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresMark Twain National ForestHOBO
21 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMark Twain National ForestGOBBLERS KNOB
15 April 2004Debris and open burning6.1 acresMark Twain National ForestGIBBS SPRING
14 April 1997Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2019Arson/incendiarism83 acresMark Twain National ForestDRY CREEK
5 March 2012Arson/incendiarism17 acresMark Twain National ForestPINE CONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Service: 35 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. 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
Bleeding Hill Copper MinesLead, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Harman MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Hinch Hill MineCopper, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
Kings Mountain MinesBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Lead Mountain MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Mathews Mines NorthLead, ZincPast Producer
Ransom's DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Stanford MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Willians MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Butts1.8 miles21
Four Points3.0 miles23
Berryman4.5 miles23
Huzzah4.7 miles21
Scotia5.3 miles21
Westover5.5 miles21
Hinch6.3 miles21
Cherry Valley6.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736533. 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.