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Sewell Ford, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bourbois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65066. It stands on Price Creek. The Survey maps it on the Redbird quadrangle.

Sewell Ford within Gasconade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Sewell Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 412 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179118-03731-04102019-1525
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200567-03734-03072020-1320
7 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261499-03731-03072020-1400
5 March 1994Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2020Recreation and ceremony2.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation261497-03731-03042020-1300
30 March 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 March 1997Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gasconade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Sewell Ford: 51 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Iron, 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
Red Bird MineZincPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
John Holt PitClayPast Producer
Taylor MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Bullard PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Hunts # 2Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
T. Branson Pit Se SeFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Tominia # 1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gasconade 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
Redbird0.6 miles17
Vieman (historical)1.0 miles17
Arthur Spring Ford1.2 miles17
Leduc (historical)1.7 miles17
Glaser Ford3.8 miles17
Cleavesville6.1 miles16
Bem7.3 miles20
Canaan8.5 miles16

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 Q122573392The 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 741257. 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.