Signal, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Miller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65401. It stands on Wildcat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vichy quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Signal within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1937 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1938 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:48000
1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Vienna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Vichy quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Signal (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
7 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
18 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
13 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 August 1997	Smoking	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
2 June 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Northwye

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Signal (historical): 31 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Strahan Land	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Unk	Iron	Past Producer
Unk	Iron	Past Producer
Farney Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
John Adkins Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Buskett Bank	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Forbes Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps 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
Northwye	5.0 miles	28
Rolla	6.0 miles	28
Westcott (historical)	6.0 miles	25
Doolittle	7.2 miles	25
Dillon	7.4 miles	23
Newburg	9.3 miles	25
Sugartree	9.3 miles	25
Table Rock	10.7 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740042. 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.