Toppertown, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63735. The Survey maps it on the Clines Island quadrangle.

Toppertown within Stoddard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1934 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
1963 USGS Clines Island quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Toppertown in 2018, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
14 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177352-10393-07142018-1340
10 December 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	178034-10393-12102018-1920

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Toppertown: 22 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Buff Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Mine #1	Clay	Past Producer
Southern Clay Pit and Plant	Clay	Producer
Unk	Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stoddard 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
Shady Dell	1.0 miles	13
Durnell	1.5 miles	13
Zeta (historical)	1.5 miles	13
Avert	2.3 miles	13
Ardeola	2.7 miles	18
Old Shawnee Village (historical)	3.0 miles	15
Shawan	3.3 miles	13
Aquilla	4.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 727714. 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.