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Albatross, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65707. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle.

Albatross within Lawrence 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

35 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Albatross between 1996 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
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
4 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177416-05558-08022018-1649
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177417-05558-07042018-1659
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177413-05558-07122018-1403
8 May 2018Smoking3.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177415-05558-05082018-2226

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Albatross: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Lead, Zinc. 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 - Lead & ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Menefee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albatross in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 2 hail, 2 tornado, 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 2019Tornado (EF1)Albatross$150,000A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado. This was the first of two tornadoes that touched down in the Miller area. The most concentrated damage was to a metal building on Highway 39 that had a large portion of the roof torn off. The occupant of the building saw the tornado approaching. Damage to trees southwest of that location marked the beginning of the track. Intermittent damage then extended along a path through southeast Miller, along Highway DD near the intersection of Main Street. The tornado continued northeast into inaccessible areas though damage to trees and an outbuilding was again noted along Farm Road 1140. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 95 mph.
March 2008Tornado (EF0)Albatross$20,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado damaged a hay barn and snapped a few power poles approximately two miles south of Miller.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindAlbatross-Trained weather spotter with the volunteer fire department estimated winds up to 70 mph. Reports of lots of small limbs and leaf debris down.
May 2010HailAlbatross-no account filed
August 2001HailAlbatross-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Miller1.8 miles17
Heatonville2.1 miles17
Phelps3.4 miles17
Call3.4 miles17
Gaither (historical)3.5 miles17
Mount Vernon6.0 miles17
Olinger6.0 miles15
Stinson6.1 miles17

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 AlbatrossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471731The 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 713186. 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.