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Stringtown, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Moreau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65053. The Survey maps it on the Lohman quadrangle.

Stringtown within Cole County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

11 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Stringtown between 2011 and 2019, burning about 131 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177432-02626-07022018-1535
18 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177430-02626-04292018-1650
23 April 2018Debris and open burning1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177429-02626-04232018-1450
22 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178709-02626-04222019-1040
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177428-02626-02182018-1630
31 December 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cole County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Stringtown: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Clay, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Reed DiggingsZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Scheplar PitBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Boaz PitLead, ZincPast Producer
Dunlap DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Rapp MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown-ShaleClayPast Producer
Unknown-ShaleClayPast Producer
Weaver DigLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cole 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
Lohman1.5 miles20
Millbrook1.6 miles19
Plummer3.1 miles20
Russellville4.6 miles18
Scruggs4.7 miles20
Scrivner4.9 miles19
Saint Martins5.0 miles20
Apache Flats5.1 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 StringtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984637The 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 741298. 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.