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Alanthus Grove, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wilson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64489. It stands on Zounds Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alanthus Grove quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Alanthus Grove within Gentry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Alanthus Grove in 1992, burning about 1 acre 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/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
1 March 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gentry 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 Alanthus Grove: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
B B Sand Co S & G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Site No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gentry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alanthus Grove in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2025Heavy RainAlanthus Grove-Cocorahs report north of Stanberry of 4.25 inches of rain through 7 am June 24th.
August 2011HailAlanthus Grove-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindAlanthus Grove-no account filed
June 2004HailAlanthus Grove-no account filed
June 2000HailAlanthus Grove-no account filed
June 2000HailAlanthus Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gentry 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
Enyart3.8 miles11
Voyage (historical)5.6 miles12
Mount Pleasant6.0 miles13
Stanberry6.2 miles13
Gentry6.8 miles12
Carmack7.7 miles12
McCurry9.3 miles12
Albany Junction (historical)10.8 miles12

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 Alanthus GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985158The 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 730044. 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.