Whitham, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Mendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65286. The Survey maps it on the Mendon quadrangle.

Whitham within Chariton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1949 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Whitham between 1999 and 2002, burning about 436 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
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
9 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
8 March 2000	Smoking	380 acres	Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge	ESIDEPRAIR
27 March 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
11 March 2000	Smoking	10 acres	Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge	TAYLORPOIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chariton 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
Snyder	3.3 miles	10
Triplett	3.7 miles	18
Mendon	4.3 miles	10
Newcomer	6.4 miles	11
Cunningham	6.6 miles	11
Sumner	7.4 miles	11
Newhall	9.0 miles	11
Indian Grove	9.1 miles	11

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 Q122594588

The 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 741358. 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.