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Wilton, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Three Creeks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65039. It stands on Glascock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hartsburg quadrangle.

Wilton within Boone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wilton in 2018, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177840-06843-04192018-1621

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Wilton: 18 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. 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
Tanner-Mcbaine MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dunlap DiggingsBarium-BaritePast Producer
UnknownBarium-BaritePast Producer
Brown QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haffner Quarries # 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hartsburg Quarry - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marion QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mineral Wool Investment PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2006: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995HailWilton-Reported by ham radio spotters in both Boone and Moniteau Counties.
April 2006HailWilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Eureka (historical)0.6 miles20
Hartsburg3.8 miles20
Easley4.7 miles20
Oldham5.1 miles20
Ashland6.1 miles21
Stonesport (historical)6.2 miles20
Sapp6.2 miles21
Nashville (historical)6.2 miles20

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 WiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984028The 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 752932. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.