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Aikinsville, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65034. The Survey maps it on the Fortuna quadrangle.

Aikinsville within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Aikinsville between 1993 and 2018, burning about 130 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 March 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 March 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation121093-07147-03102015-1530
3 February 2018Debris and open burning3.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177931-07144-02032018-0740
30 December 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation143891-07147-12302016-1640
21 October 1999Arson/incendiarism105 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Aikinsville: 31 past producers, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Coal, Lead, Zinc, 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
Bluff Springs Zinc MineCoal, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Boaz DiggingsBarium-BaritePast Producer
Morrison Lead ProspectLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cotton Tail DiggingsZinc, LeadPast Producer
Hot Springs MineZinc, LeadProspect
Koortz MinesZinc, LeadPast Producer
Mary M. MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Merrel MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Sharon MineZinc, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aikinsville in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2025Tornado (EF0)Aikinsville$20,000A National Weather Service survey found that an EF-0 A tornado touched down south of Mill Creek in Morgan County, Missouri at 4:30 PM on April 20, 2025. This tornado removed multiple turkey/chicken barn roof panels, in addition to breaking several large tree limbs. The tornado lifted at 4:32 PM.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindAikinsville-A personal weather station measured a 61mph wind gust near Fortuna.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Glensted3.1 miles18
Florence7.9 miles18
Syracuse8.0 miles18
Excelsior8.2 miles19
Versailles8.7 miles23
Pyrmont10.3 miles17
Marvin10.4 miles23
Stover11.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740617. 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.