Tin Roof, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Delaware Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65548. It lies near Sycamore Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Jam Up Cave quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Tin Roof within Shannon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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.

1946 USGS Summersville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Summersville quadrangle1:62500
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
1968 USGS Jam Up Cave quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Spring Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Tin Roof (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,485 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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	30
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 2001	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
25 June 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ozark National Scenic River	HAYFIELD WF
6 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 May 2015	Debris and open burning	37 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	123730-10100-05022015-1532
15 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	223 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 April 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shannon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Tin Roof (historical): 10 occurrences, 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unk	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Atkins Estate Land	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Bennett-Smith Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1907
Berry Wm. Land No. 1	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Berry Wm. Land No.2	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Esther B. Detwiler Land	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
Hilda Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1910
Johnson Lewis Bank	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Sneathen and Company Land No. 1	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite

Every working recorded in Shannon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Oakside	6.1 miles	19
Alley Spring	6.7 miles	22
Birch Tree	6.9 miles	14
Montier	6.9 miles	12
Alley	7.0 miles	22
Delaware	7.2 miles	22
Teresita	8.2 miles	12
Buckhart Springs (historical)	8.5 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2664276. 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.