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Westover, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Courtois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65565. The Survey maps it on the Huzzah quadrangle.

Westover within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Westover between 1992 and 2020, burning about 686 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
1 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2005Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresMark Twain National ForestHOBO TURNOFF
5 April 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestHOBO JUNKYARD
29 April 1997Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestWESTOVER DUMP
25 April 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresMark Twain National ForestHOBO
24 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 1996Debris and open burning7.0 acresMark Twain National ForestHOBO
15 April 2004Debris and open burning6.1 acresMark Twain National ForestGIBBS SPRING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Westover: 19 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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
Eaton MineLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer1890
Halbert's DiggingsIron, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Green's Hill MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Stanford MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Willians MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Green's Hill MineLeadPast Producer1858
Stanford MineLeadPast ProducerGalena
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Cherry Valley No. 1 and 2IronPast Producer1879

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Cherry Valley3.0 miles22
Patsy3.6 miles22
Huzzah3.9 miles21
Elaver4.2 miles22
Service5.5 miles21
Cherryville5.5 miles19
Butts6.3 miles21
Midland6.5 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.

Wikipedia article on WestoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984750The 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 752832. 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.