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Teal Bend, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Tom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65355. It stands on Tebo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee Bend quadrangle. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Teal Bend within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Teal Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 934 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined138 acresMissouri Department of ConservationRACKET
15 August 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1994Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation126550-00810-07062015-1705
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use18 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177368-04209-07052018-1336
6 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177166-00807-04062018-1052

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Teal Bend: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Charles Millers LandIronPast Producer
Smith MineIronPast Producer
Northwest Quarry Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Palo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls. PitsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Warsaw Northwest Mine Qry 1 & PlntStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Racket0.8 miles22
Macks Camp2.5 miles22
Bent Tree Harbor3.2 miles23
Opportunity Farms3.7 miles23
Tackner4.3 miles23
Warsaw6.0 miles23
Valley View6.1 miles23
Cold Springs6.4 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q7691382The 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 738536. 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.