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Agnes, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65470. The Survey maps it on the Drew quadrangle.

Agnes within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Agnes between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,520 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 April 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2005Arson/incendiarism107 acresMark Twain National ForestCOBB
1 April 1994Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 2016Arson/incendiarism1,027 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134355-05300-03062016-1200
5 March 2017Arson/incendiarism21 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Agnes: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Laclede County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agnes in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
March 2009Thunderstorm WindAgnes$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged a home near the intersection of Highway O and County Road 181.
June 2020Flash FloodAgnes-State Highway O was closed and impassable at Cobb Creek.
November 2015FloodAgnes-The low water crossing at Route B was closed due to flooding at South Cobb Creek near the community of Drew.
November 2015FloodAgnes-Highway O was closed due to flooding of Big Cobb Creek west of Competition.
August 2013Flash FloodAgnes-Route B was closed due to flooding.
March 2015HailAgnes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laclede 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
Origanna2.4 miles12
Drew2.9 miles17
Lyons3.7 miles17
Competition4.2 miles17
Orla4.6 miles14
Jacksonville5.1 miles17
Evergreen5.6 miles14
Clark Ford5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 748564. 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.