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Alley Spring, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Eminence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65466. It lies near Lawrence Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Alley Spring quadrangle.

Alley Spring within Shannon County

On record in Alley Spring

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Alley Spring between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,174 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 48 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
Arson/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
19 August 1999Arson/incendiarism27 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 July 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 June 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverSLIDE
9 April 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverEDSMITH
7 April 2011Arson/incendiarism435 acresMissouri Department of ConservationALLEN BRANCH
7 April 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark National Scenic RiverHORSE
7 April 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOzark National Scenic RiverWEST
6 April 2002Arson/incendiarism80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shannon County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alley Spring: 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
McKinney MineCopperPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chilton BankIronProspect
West Eminence BankIronProspect

Every working recorded in Shannon County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alley Spring in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 flash flood. 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
May 1997Flash FloodAlley Spring-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shannon 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
Alley0.6 miles22
House Hollow (historical)2.7 miles22
Delaware3.4 miles22
West Eminence3.7 miles22
Eminence4.6 miles22
Venice5.0 miles22
Flatwood5.3 miles22
Spur 3 (historical)5.6 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 713232. 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.