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Bachelor, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65231. The Survey maps it on the Calwood quadrangle.

Bachelor within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bachelor between 1999 and 2019, burning about 262 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
28 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation189935-01420-07282019-1545
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 June 2019Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation189934-01420-06062019-0946
18 June 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177549-01420-05072018-2054
10 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution235 acresMissouri Department of Conservation189996-01420-04102019-1838
4 March 2018Debris and open burning3.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177541-01420-03042018-1644
3 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177387-01420-02032018-0115

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bachelor: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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 - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Blaussett PitsFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Callaway County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bachelor in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBachelor-Thunderstorm winds lifted the roof panels off of an equipment shed on State Route A near intersection with County Road 181. Also several trees were either uprooted or snapped off nearby.

Every storm recorded in Callaway 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
Shamrock4.2 miles16
Williamsburg6.3 miles21
Calwood6.6 miles21
Auxvasse6.8 miles16
Bryans (historical)7.7 miles16
McCredie8.8 miles21
Kingdom City9.3 miles21
Yucatan9.7 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740649. 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.