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Walkers Corner, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65326. It lies near Wayne Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Knobby quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Walkers Corner within Benton 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Union township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876 - Union Township

Noted Criminal Trials

In 1840, Wm. Grizzle was tried on a change of venue from Pulaski County. He was indicted and found guilty of murder in the first degree and Sheriff Smith erected a scaffold for his execution in the hollow, between the hills, a short distance south of Mr. E. S. Drake's house. A large concourse of people gathered to witness the execution, and the prisoner was on the scaffold, when a commutation by the Grovernor to imprisonment in the Penitentiary was produced.

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In the county-history sources

15,139 words on this township

A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 15,139 words.

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Walkers Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,495 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined78
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2015Natural1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation129640-00806-09062015-1743
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179287-00805-09162019-1315
13 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 August 1999Debris and open burning248 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 1999Arson/incendiarism240 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179329-00805-06082019-2115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Walkers Corner: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron. 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
Deer Creek MinesLeadPast Producer
Gun BankIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Lively2.0 miles20
Knobby2.1 miles20
Hastain4.4 miles20
Edwards5.0 miles20
Lakeview Heights6.1 miles21
Zora7.2 miles20
Majorville9.2 miles23
Fristoe10.5 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q7962369The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741344. 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.