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Talmage City, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64873. The Survey maps it on the Sarcoxie quadrangle.

Talmage City within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of Talmage City: 66 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sarcoxie QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - PbLeadPast Producer
Unknown - SsSilicaPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Frey-Cummings-Suprise Mining Co.ZincPast Producer1902
Navy Bean-Reynolds MineZincPast Producer1924
Soukop MineZincPast Producer1924, 1943
Unknown - ZnZincPast Producer
Gobbler ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Wentworth1.6 miles11
Berwick5.4 miles11
Park6.1 miles11
Center Point6.5 miles11
Ritchey6.8 miles11
Pepsin8.0 miles18
Jolly8.1 miles11
Newtonia10.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740062. 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.

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.