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Shepherd of the Hills Estates, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65653. It stands on Swan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forsyth quadrangle.

Shepherd of the Hills Estates within Taney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Shepherd of the Hills Estates between 1993 and 2020, burning about 214 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178259-10604-09262018-1503
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179441-10604-08092019-1940
31 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251307-10604-08312020-2019
5 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179440-10604-07052019-0907
4 July 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 June 2018Debris and open burning8.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177566-10604-06092018-0510
7 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177565-10604-06072018-0916

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taney 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 Shepherd of the Hills Estates: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Iron, 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
Silver Moon MineZincPast Producer
Syler LandIronPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taney 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
Forsyth0.5 miles14
Long Beach1.2 miles14
McFarland (historical)2.0 miles14
Rockaway Beach2.2 miles14
Edgewater Beach2.5 miles14
Ozark Beach2.5 miles14
Powersite2.5 miles14
Merriam Woods2.7 miles14

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 Q122590748The 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 2646668. 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.