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Sunset, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in South Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65613. It stands on Steinshouer Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Vista quadrangle.

Sunset within Polk 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.

Fires near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sunset between 1993 and 2018, burning about 210 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 burning11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177176-08407-06162018-1205
11 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sunset: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - FlintStonePast Producer
Unknown - FlintStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk 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
Van1.3 miles16
Rex3.3 miles17
Burns3.7 miles16
Cedar Vista3.7 miles16
Slagle3.8 miles17
Schofield5.4 miles17
Halfway5.6 miles17
Karlin5.6 miles17

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 SunsetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28005972The 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 732779. 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.