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Alliance, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63781. It stands on Shrum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sedgewickville quadrangle.

Alliance within Bollinger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Alliance between 1995 and 2020, burning about 8 acres 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
6 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 April 2019Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179387-02359-04132019-1424
21 March 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179384-02359-02192019-1532
1 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190302-02359-01012020-1314

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alliance in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011FloodAlliance$350,000no account filed
April 2010HailAlliance-Quarter-size hail fell northwest of Sedgwickville near the end of Highway EE.
April 2011FloodAlliance-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Precinct1.4 miles19
North Patton2.4 miles19
Bollinger Mill2.7 miles17
Heitmans Mill2.9 miles19
Patton Junction3.1 miles19
Patton4.2 miles19
Lixville4.6 miles17
Ezra (historical)5.4 miles19

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 AllianceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16868923The 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 731525. 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.