Armour, Missouri

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.

• Sugar Lake State Park Open Shelterlisted 1985 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1885 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
• 1888 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1926 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Sugar Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS Rushville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Atchison East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Atchison East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000

The History of Buchanan County, Missouri : Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Buchanan County in the Late War, General and Local Statisics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of Missouri, Map of Buchanan County, Etc., Etc, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Rush Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Armour between 2002 and 2018, burning about 1,079 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lewis and Clark Village
• Sugar Lake
• Rushville
• De Kalb
• Winthrop
• Halls

Every fire recorded in Buchanan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Armour: 11 past producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Buchanan County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armour in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Buchanan County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739975. 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.