Wyreka, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64672. The Survey maps it on the Powersville quadrangle.

Wyreka within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Powersville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Leon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wyreka between 1992 and 2017, burning about 18 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
Debris and open burning	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
18 March 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 March 1992	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
24 February 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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
Powersville	2.3 miles	7
Galesburg	2.6 miles	7
Saint John	4.1 miles	10
Lucerne	4.7 miles	7
Terre Haute	6.4 miles	7
Midway	6.6 miles	7
West Liberty (historical)	7.7 miles	7
Quinn	9.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 733749. 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.