Watkins, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Richwoods Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65486. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brumley quadrangle.

Watkins within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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
1933 USGS Iberia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1937 USGS Iberia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1947 USGS Jefferson City quadrangle1:250000
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 Brumley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Watkins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 467 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning	27
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 July 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Watkins: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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
Lambert Mine	Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer
Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Armstedt Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Bond Iron Banks	Iron	Past Producer
Fancher Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Gardner Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Goodrich Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Harlan Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Lambert Iron Bank	Iron	Past Producer
Short Bank	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Miller 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
Ulman	3.9 miles	19
Faith	4.9 miles	19
Iberia	5.2 miles	19
Keethtown	6.0 miles	19
Saint Anthony	6.1 miles	19
Brumley	6.2 miles	19
Samtown	6.4 miles	19
Brays	7.2 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741347. 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.