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Silver Creek, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Shoal Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64804. The Survey maps it on the Joplin East quadrangle. 623 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.

Silver Creek within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Silver Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 1 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179214-07341-09262019-1903
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179195-07341-09232019-1332
22 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 805 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 805 workings within 5 miles of Silver Creek: 804 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Kirshmann-Jeffries QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - Zn/PbZinc, LeadPast Producer
Cox and Owen Stokes LeaseZincPast Producer1915
J&M Mining Co.-Ben PutnamZincPast Producer1895
White Oak MineZincPast Producer
Griesmer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joplin Stone Co. MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Taxbox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Gateway Drive0.8 miles19
Saginaw1.2 miles19
Leawood1.3 miles19
Sunnyvale1.4 miles19
Dennis Acres1.8 miles19
Midway1.9 miles19
Shoal Creek Estates2.0 miles19
Shoal Creek Drive2.5 miles19

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 Silver CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3295951The 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 726443. 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.