Venus, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65459. It stands on Krone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brinktown quadrangle.

Venus within Maries County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1888 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Tavern quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Tavern quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Lake Of The Ozarks quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Brinktown quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Venus between 1992 and 2019, burning about 198 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	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
18 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
13 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 1992	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
25 April 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 1994	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 Maries County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Venus: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown - Iron	Iron	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead	Lead	Past Producer
Unknown - Lead & Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown - Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tailings Pond -Barite -Superior Min	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Wolf-Superior Minerals Mine	Barium-Barite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Maries 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
Brinktown	4.6 miles	20
Vienna	4.6 miles	17
Ozark Junction	4.7 miles	20
Tavern	5.2 miles	20
Meyerstown	6.9 miles	20
Van Cleve	7.5 miles	20
Hayden	7.9 miles	17
Sudheimer	8.3 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741337. 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.