Tallent, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Crooked Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63764. It stands on Henson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1933 USGS Marquand quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Marquand quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 2000 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Tallent between 1997 and 2019, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179389-02359-09292019-1930 |
| 5 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 June 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179388-02359-06212019-2240 |
| 18 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | WHITENER CREEK |
| 28 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179386-02359-03282019-1626 |
| 21 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | WASH CREEK |
| 10 March 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | ARTESIAN WELL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tallent: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Gale Slinkard Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Lux Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Pavlick Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Shrum Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loyd | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Patton | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Hurricane | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Patton Junction | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| North Patton | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Grisham | 6.1 miles | 19 | |
| Shrum | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Mayfield | 6.4 miles | 19 |
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 Tallent | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16901112 | 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 752485. 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.













