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Arditta, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65626. The Survey maps it on the Caulfield quadrangle.

Arditta within Howell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 12 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Arditta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 278 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning15
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176713-80001-04092018-1311
6 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176715-80001-04212018-1345

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Arditta: 17 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Iron, Lead, 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
Alice MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Ball MineLeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
B H + B MineIronPast Producer
C&G MineIronPast Producer1950
Patillo BrothersIronProspect1953
Ralph Jacobs ProspectIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arditta in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindArditta$5,000Trees were downed on power lines just west of Timberland Pallet, 10 miles west of West Plains on 160 Highway.
September 2016Flash FloodArditta-State Highway MM was closed due to flash flooding along Spring Creek.
March 2015HailArditta-no account filed
March 2015HailArditta-no account filed
March 2015HailArditta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howell 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
Egypt Grove1.7 miles12
Caulfield2.2 miles12
Hocomo3.1 miles12
Amy3.2 miles12
Wetherhill (historical)3.4 miles12
Cureall3.5 miles13
South Fork5.4 miles13
Pottersville5.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 713376. 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.