Stepanek Crossing, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bedford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63379. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Silex quadrangle.

Stepanek Crossing within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1890 USGS Louisiana quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1937 USGS Silex quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Silex quadrangle1:48000
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Silex quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Mexico quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stepanek Crossing between 1997 and 2007, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 April 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 April 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 March 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stepanek Crossing: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Cave	1.2 miles	16
Mashek (historical)	1.3 miles	16
Mackville	2.7 miles	16
Famous	3.0 miles	16
Davis	3.5 miles	16
Cuivre Heights	3.9 miles	13
Hawk Point	4.9 miles	21
Briscoe	5.1 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122566136

The 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 741287. 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.