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Arnica, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65674. The Survey maps it on the Arnica quadrangle.

Arnica within Cedar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Arnica between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,284 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
22 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 1994Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1997Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2019Debris and open burning5.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178470-02007-04062019-1740
5 April 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 April 2019Debris and open burning182 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178647-02007-04162019-1655

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Arnica: 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnica in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 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
December 2002Tornado (F1)Arnica$2,000no account filed
August 2022HailArnica-Ping Pong ball sized hail was reported in a rural areas near Arnica.
September 2014HailArnica-Golf ball sized hail was reported near the intersection of Highway J and County Road 900.
November 2010Heavy RainArnica-A Public observer reported 3.9 inches of rainfall. No flooding was observed.
November 2010FloodArnica-Minor flooding was reported by Cedar County dispatch along Highway J at County Road 900 just north of Stockton.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindArnica-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a large tree across County Road 2025 near its intersection with Highway 32.
June 2005Flash FloodArnica-Heavy thunderstorms caused flash flooding over a section of Country Road 2191 just north of Highway AA.
June 2005HailArnica-no account filed
May 2004HailArnica-no account filed
May 2003Tornado (F0)Arnica-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Graceland3.1 miles18
Hamlet3.6 miles17
Claud4.3 miles17
Caplinger Mills5.9 miles18
Stockton5.9 miles15
Bearcreek7.0 miles15
Ivy8.4 miles18
Umber9.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729838. 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.