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Aroma, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Granby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64844. The Survey maps it on the Neosho East quadrangle.

Aroma within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Aroma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 327 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
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179426-07334-09282019-0845
22 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 360 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 360 workings within 5 miles of Aroma: 359 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Booth Ryan & Co. MineLeadPast Producer
Cadmium MineZinc, CadmiumPast Producer
Old Devil MineZinc, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - Zn & Pb & CoalZinc, Lead, CoalPast Producer
Dungy MineZincPast Producer
Lt. George Chase ShaftZincPast Producer
Shinn MineZincPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aroma in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 1 hail, 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
August 2018HailAroma$2,000The public reported tennis ball size hail via social media just south of Granby, Mo. The hail fell in a rural area and produces little damage.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAroma$1,000A large event tent was blown completely down due to high winds. No injuries occurred.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Monark Springs1.4 miles16
Sweetwater2.6 miles16
Granby3.9 miles14
Stark City4.2 miles11
Cartmell (historical)4.3 miles11
Newtonia4.3 miles11
Christopher4.7 miles16
Boulder City4.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 713398. 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.