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Star City, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McDonald Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65734. It lies near Kemp Hollow. The Survey maps it on the McDowell quadrangle.

Star City within Barry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Star City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,090 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179124-00523-09152019-1705
13 August 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation139594-00523-06302016-1340
12 June 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation139593-00523-05152016-2241
7 April 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Star City: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lynn Cave ProspectLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kelley & Anderson MinesZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mcdowell MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barry 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
Travers2.2 miles13
Dale2.5 miles13
McDowell3.9 miles11
Oak Ridge4.2 miles13
East Purdy4.6 miles11
Butterfield5.2 miles11
Purdy6.5 miles11
Jenkins6.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 727015. 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.