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Smoky Hollow, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Texas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. It lies in Smoky Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Rhyse quadrangle.

Smoky Hollow within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 18 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Smoky Hollow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
15 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 August 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 July 1999Debris and open burning150 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1997Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Smoky Hollow: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper. 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
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Causey MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Causey MineIronPast Producer
Clark MineIronPast ProducerUnknown
Clark MineIronPast Producer
Kerr MineIronPast Producer
Lenox MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Lenox MineIronPast Producer
Thomas MineIronPast Producer1879, 1892
Thomas MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent 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
Hedrick1.6 miles18
Rhyse3.7 miles18
Lenox4.2 miles19
North Lenox4.5 miles19
Ranger4.9 miles18
Jack5.0 miles17
Anutt6.6 miles18
Deep Ford6.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 726645. 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.