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Settletown, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63628. It stands on Number Seven Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bonne Terre quadrangle.

Settletown within St. Francois County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Settletown between 1993 and 2020, burning about 354 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261411-09432-09092020-1925
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261410-09432-09092020-2144
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136091-11043-04232016-1338
18 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135856-11043-04182016-1515

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Settletown: 34 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Barium-Barite. 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
Bonne TerreLead, Copper, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer1821
Bonne Terre MillDolomiteProducer
Bonne Terre MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1864, 1868
Mineral Point GroupLead, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Galena
Taylors Shaft #2Lead, ZincPast Producer
North QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francois 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
The Lead Belt2.8 miles21
Bonne Terre2.9 miles21
Terre du Lac3.1 miles20
Hoffman Junction3.5 miles21
Lake Timberline4.1 miles21
East Bonne Terre4.2 miles21
Silver Springs5.1 miles21
Leadwood5.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 757838. 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.