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Athens, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63465. The Survey maps it on the Croton quadrangle.

Athens within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Athens between 2006 and 2014, burning about 174 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3

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
9 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2446 150TH AVE, SW OF DONNELLSON, IOWA
16 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burning75 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Athens: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Farmington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
T.E. Driscoll QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athens in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2005: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2003HailAthens$1,000,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAthens$100,00012 inch tree limbs down
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAthens$70,000Tree limbs down & trees topped
September 2005Thunderstorm WindAthens$3,000From co-op observer. Two trees along with many branches down.
May 1995HailAthens-Reported by local law enforcement.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAthens-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Anson3.6 miles12
Peaksville5.2 miles12
Dumas5.4 miles12
Revere6.1 miles17
Chambersburg6.7 miles12
Acasto7.3 miles12
Waterloo9.3 miles17
Saint Francisville11.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740640. 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.