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West Bunker, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Sinkin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63629. The Survey maps it on the Bunker quadrangle.

West Bunker within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of West Bunker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,015 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 67 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
Arson/incendiarism67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestBUNKER ROADSIDE
20 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMark Twain National ForestDOE RUN
18 August 2012Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMark Twain National ForestKK JUNCTION
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestKITCHEL BRANCH
17 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCITY LIMITS
13 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCHARCOAL 77
13 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCHARCOAL 74
13 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCHARCOAL 75

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of West Bunker: 9 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bunker BankIronOccurrenceLimonite
Bunker BankIronPast Producer
Red Hill MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Red Hill MineIronPast Producer
Red Ore BankIronPast Producer
Slater MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Slater MineIronPast Producer
Swinney LandIronOccurrenceLimonite
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent 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
Falk Mill (historical)4.7 miles20
Gila5.2 miles20
Halcyon9.0 miles17
Turtle11.5 miles18
Howes Mill11.9 miles19
Stone Hill12.1 miles19
Max12.1 miles18
Boss13.0 miles22

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 Q122557536The 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 735474. 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.