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Yucatan, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nine Mile Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63388. It stands on Bragg Branch. The Survey maps it on the Reform quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Yucatan within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Yucatan between 2011 and 2020, burning about 48 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1

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
27 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261393-01420-06202020-1219
2 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation189932-01420-03262019-1529
25 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177297-01420-01252018-1511

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Yucatan: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Reform QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arthur Nichols PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
J.L.Davis PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Callaway 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
Toledo3.7 miles21
Readsville3.8 miles21
Williamsburg5.2 miles21
Reform6.3 miles21
Garrett (historical)6.6 miles21
Calwood7.1 miles21
Heilburn (historical)9.3 miles22
Bachelor9.7 miles21

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 YucatanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8060144The 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 741377. 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.