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Summit, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Breton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63660. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Point quadrangle.

Summit within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 622 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261411-09432-09092020-1925
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261410-09432-09092020-2144
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation128791-11043-09242015-1506
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation128792-11043-09242015-1214
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 52 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 52 workings within 5 miles of Summit: 43 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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
Jordans Copper DiggingsCopperPast Producer
PotosiLead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, IronPast Producer1763
Unknown - Lead and ZincZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Evans MineZincPast Producer
Mineral Point GroupLead, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Galena
Washington County Zinc WorksZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead and ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead and ZincLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2011: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011HailSummit-no account filed
June 2008HailSummit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Hopewell1.7 miles20
Mineral Point2.4 miles20
Springtown2.9 miles21
French Town3.5 miles20
Adelbert (historical)4.1 miles20
Potosi4.6 miles21
Fountain Farm4.6 miles20
White (historical)4.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736354. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.