Wittenberg, Missouri

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.

• 1918 USGS Altenburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1925 USGS Altenburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Altenburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Altenburg quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Altenburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Altenburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Altenburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Wittenberg between 1992 and 2014, burning about 203 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Loimbach Landing

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Wittenberg: 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, 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.

Every working recorded in Perry County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 736367. 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.