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Theabeau Town, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63630. It lies near Sugar Hill. The Survey maps it on the Tiff quadrangle.

Theabeau Town within Washington 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.

Fires near this place

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Theabeau Town between 1992 and 2018, burning about 947 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism21
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1999Arson/incendiarism22 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137652-11043-05072016-2152
11 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Theabeau Town: 54 past producers, 14 producers, 6 unknowns, 5 prospects. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Bee and Scott DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Elliot MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Bellefontaine MinesLeadPast Producer
Cannon MinesLeadPast Producer
Gulf ProspectLeadPast Producer
Murphy's MineLeadPast Producer
Prairie DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Mud Town1.1 miles18
Racola1.5 miles19
Bellefontaine1.6 miles18
Old Mines1.9 miles19
Cannon Mines2.1 miles18
Happy Hollow2.2 miles18
Shibboleth2.2 miles18
Robidoux2.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736727. 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.