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Tarrants, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cuivre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63334. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Tarrants within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Tarrants between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
21 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220650-08204-08212020-1532
16 April 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179111-08204-04102019-1347
8 March 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 2005Recreation and ceremony10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 March 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Tarrants: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hume QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Magnesium Mining Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Bowling Green1.2 miles18
Vera2.5 miles18
McCune4.7 miles18
Saint Clement5.2 miles18
Cyrene6.3 miles18
Ashley7.5 miles18
Elmwood8.0 miles19
Edgewood8.2 miles18

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 TarrantsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q920999The 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 727467. 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.