Wataga, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lindley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64661. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasanton quadrangle.

Wataga within Mercer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Pleasanton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Wataga between 1997 and 2018, burning about 92 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
28 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	125910-02319-04282015-1848
26 April 2018	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177457-02319-04262018-1631
1 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	121721-02319-04012015-0955
1 April 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 March 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	120250-02319-03062015-1434

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wataga: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mercer 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
Adel	2.8 miles	7
Saline	5.5 miles	7
South Lineville	5.9 miles	7
Mercer	6.3 miles	7
Burrows	7.2 miles	10
Alvord (historical)	7.5 miles	10
Ilia (historical)	9.9 miles	7
Princeton	11.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 759958. 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.