Slabtown, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65542. It stands on Slabtown Branch. The Survey maps it on the Slabtown Spring quadrangle.

Slabtown within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1941 USGS Big Piney quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Big Piney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Big Piney quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Slabtown Spring quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lebanon quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Slabtown Spring quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Slabtown between 1992 and 2018, burning about 831 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1

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 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	POCKET EDDIE
9 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.3 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	PADDY ACCESS 2
21 May 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Mark Twain National Forest	CATAMOUNT
14 May 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	CAMP FIRE
8 April 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	not named
2 April 2007	Arson/incendiarism	240 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	POCKET EDDY
16 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	MCCLOY
1 April 1997	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Mark Twain National Forest	FOOL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas 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
Dent	2.5 miles	20
Edanville	2.6 miles	19
Hazleton	2.6 miles	19
Kinderpost	4.0 miles	20
Ladd	5.2 miles	19
Evening Shade	6.5 miles	19
Vada	6.5 miles	15
Roby	7.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 752191. 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.