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Spring Creek, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65461. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Devils Elbow quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Spring Creek within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,505 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestHAY FIRE
20 August 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestWINDROW 18
12 May 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestDECKER RIDGE
8 April 2019Arson/incendiarism307 acresMark Twain National ForestBIG PINEY
8 April 2000Arson/incendiarism86 acresMark Twain National ForestTHREE STEVE'S
25 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresMark Twain National ForestLONNIE
23 April 2009Arson/incendiarism23 acresMark Twain National ForestSPRING
22 April 2009Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestHALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Spring Creek: 11 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Pruitt Mountain MineIronPast Producer
UnkIronPast Producer
Devils Elbow QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ta 256 Pit + PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ta 256 Quarry + MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ta 256 S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Flat5.2 miles19
Duke7.1 miles23
Clementine7.9 miles20
Powellville8.8 miles20
Edgar Springs9.3 miles19
Yancy Mills10.3 miles26
Blooming Rose10.7 miles20
Beulah11.1 miles20

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 Spring CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27995326The 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 752298. 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.