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Adonis, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in McKinley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65613. It stands on Possum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sentinel quadrangle.

Adonis within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Adonis between 1992 and 2009, burning about 184 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning5
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
11 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 1994Arson/incendiarism65 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation330TH ROAD
18 March 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Adonis: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Pittsburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adonis in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026HailAdonis$200,000Hail to the size of hen eggs was reported along the lake. Several vacation cabins had minor roof damage with minor damage to a few vehicles noted as well.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAdonis$15,000no account filed
April 2003HailAdonis-no account filed
April 2002HailAdonis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Sentinel3.6 miles24
Mohawk Corner4.1 miles24
Rondo5.0 miles25
Huron5.6 miles19
Polk5.7 miles19
Huckaby6.0 miles19
Rimby7.2 miles19
Flemington7.3 miles16

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 AdonisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27989204The 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 740614. 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.