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Babbtown, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65058. The Survey maps it on the Meta quadrangle.

Babbtown within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Babbtown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 119 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177916-07614-03242018-1313
22 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 March 1992Debris and open burning97 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178256-07614-02272019-0449
21 February 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Babbtown: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur-Pyrite. 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
Meta MineSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - PbLeadPast Producer
Borymeier QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Emloe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - FeIronPast Producer
Unknown - Fe.IronPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Babbtown in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBabbtown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees onto Highway 133 about a mile north northeast of Meta.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindBabbtown-A line of severe storms moved eastward across Osage County. The strongest storm tracked across the southern portions of the county, knocking down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines. Several trees were blown down onto Highway P just northeast of Meta. Also, a large tree was blown down onto U.S. Highway 63 near Freeburg.
April 2026HailBabbtown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Meta2.3 miles17
Koeltztown5.2 miles17
Folk6.1 miles17
Argyle6.8 miles17
Castle Rock (historical)9.1 miles17
Westphalia10.2 miles17
Freeburg11.6 miles17
Lisletown (historical)12.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740648. 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.