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Sugar Lake, Missouri

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Marshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64484. It stands on Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Atchison East quadrangle.

Sugar Lake within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 32 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

9 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Lake between 2014 and 2018, burning about 1,070 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 April 2018Arson/incendiarism667 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176765-00000-04172018-1710
12 April 2014Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 2014Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAtchison County170216
4 March 2017Fireworksunder an acreAtchison County170208
15 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresLeavenworth CountyMCGEE
26 January 2014Debris and open burning180 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte 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 Sugar Lake: 14 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bramble QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Iatan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Rose QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Steele QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Teaney-Brumley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte 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
Bean Lake Station1.3 miles26
Iatan3.2 miles46
Dye5.1 miles46
Sadler6.5 miles46
Weston9.3 miles46
Haydite11.5 miles44
New Market11.6 miles18
Woodruff11.7 miles44

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 759719. 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.