Sidney, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Elm Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63544. The Survey maps it on the Stahl quadrangle.

Sidney within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1912 USGS Green City quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS Green City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Green City SE quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Stahl quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sidney in 1992, burning about 24 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 burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 April 1992	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
21 January 1992	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sidney: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lowground	4.6 miles	10
Martinstown	4.7 miles	11
Elko	4.8 miles	11
Graysville	6.7 miles	11
Rosewood	7.4 miles	11
Worthington	7.9 miles	11
Hartford	8.0 miles	11
Lickskillet	8.5 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Sidney	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28006003	The 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 741264. 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.