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Arley, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Kearney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64060. It stands on Holtzclaw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arley quadrangle.

Arley within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Arley between 1992 and 2007, burning about 152 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2

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
1 September 2007Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 May 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Arley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arley in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindArley$5,000A swing set was damaged by a limb falling onto it.
September 2019Flash FloodArley-Water was reported over the road at 147th and Stark Ave.
April 2015HailArley-A retired NWS employee reported 1.25 inch hail.
June 2015Flash FloodArley-NE 172nd Street east of Arley was impassable due to water over the road from a nearby creek.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindArley-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 65 mph.
May 2009HailArley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Ectonville3.1 miles23
Paradise4.1 miles37
Kearney5.1 miles22
Winner5.5 miles23
Holt6.4 miles22
Smithville7.3 miles37
Roosterville7.5 miles23
Chandler7.9 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740635. 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.