BlockTurnback, Missouri
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in South Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65752. It sits by Guffy Bluff. The Survey maps it on the South Greenfield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1888 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS South Greenfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Turnback (historical) between 1999 and 2020, burning about 78 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2000 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 12 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177413-05558-07122018-1403 |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 220598-921-03072020-1535 |
| 2 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 31 October 1999 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 January 2018 | Debris and open burning | 55 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176130-921-01252018-1221 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dilday Mill | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Snadon Ford | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| New Kirk | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Pennsboro | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Pilgrim | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Everton | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Fiddlers Ford | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| South Greenfield | 5.5 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740558. 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.