Wilbur, Missouri

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Pascola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63827. The Survey maps it on the Wardell quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wilbur within Pemiscot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1940 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pascola quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1978 USGS Wardell quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wilbur (historical) between 2005 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
4 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.2 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	179225-07861-03272019-1645
22 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177789-80001-03222018-1749

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pemiscot 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
Ingram Ridge	1.9 miles	8
Pascola	1.9 miles	8
Homestown	2.6 miles	8
Keokuk (historical)	3.3 miles	8
Terry	3.7 miles	8
Wardell	4.0 miles	8
Netherlands	4.0 miles	8
North Wardell	4.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739555. 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.