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Shackleford Crossing, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Blackwater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65347. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nelson quadrangle.

Shackleford Crossing within Cooper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

322 words on this township

A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Blackwater Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Blackwater Township - 322 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Shackleford Crossing between 2017 and 2019, burning about 21 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
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
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177776-02729-07112018-1050
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179320-02729-04212019-0835
1 April 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179319-02729-04012019-1520
22 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179315-02729-03222019-0250

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Shackleford Crossing: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous, Lead, Zinc, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shackleford DiggingsBituminous, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cooper 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
Corioli (historical)2.5 miles17
Hoffman5.7 miles18
Harriston6.0 miles18
Blackwater6.5 miles17
Pilot Grove6.6 miles18
Pleasant Green7.0 miles18
Chouteau Springs7.7 miles17
Clifton City8.8 miles18

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 Q122597212The 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 741259. 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.