BlockAlfalfa Center, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63834. It stands on Dry Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Wyatt quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1969 USGS Wyatt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Wickliffe quadrangle1:62500
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Alfalfa Center between 2003 and 2017, 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/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ACROSS DIS |
| 5 February 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfalfa Center in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 2 flood, 2 funnel cloud, 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alfalfa Center | $100,000 | A couple of metal buildings were blown across fields. Approximately 20 telephone poles were snapped off. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Alfalfa Center | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Alfalfa Center | - | A funnel cloud formed just northeast of Wyatt. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Alfalfa Center | - | Multiple videos of a landspout tornado were reported from a storm in Mississppi County southeast of an I-57 weigh station. The storm drifted northwestward. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Alfalfa Center | - | Multiple photos were reported of a landspout tornado on the southwest side of Cairo near the Mississippi River which formed near the intersection of a small cell and an outflow boundary. No damage was reported with this landspout. |
| September 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Alfalfa Center | - | A funnel cloud was reported by the general public. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Alfalfa Center | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Alfalfa Center | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Birds Point | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Rumsey Spur (historical) | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Rushs Ridge | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Wilson City | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Hough | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Wyatt | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Norfolk (historical) | 5.3 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739973. 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.
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.