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Bangert, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Short Bend Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. The Survey maps it on the Seaton quadrangle.

Bangert within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Bangert between 1992 and 2015, burning about 690 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 burning32
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 May 1994Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Bangert: 41 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead. 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 - LeadLeadPast Producer
African MineIronPast ProducerSurface/Underground
African MineIronPast Producer
Arnold MineIronPast ProducerSurface
Arnold MineIronPast Producer
Benton Creek MineIronPast Producer
Benton Creek MineIronPast Producer
Blackwell BankIronPast Producer
Blair MineIronPast ProducerUnknown
Blair MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent County

Storms near this place

3 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bangert in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 2003: 2 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
June 1994HailBangert$500The public reported golf ball size hail along Highway 68 in extreme northern Dent County at 0335 CST. Golf ball-size hail and wind gusts to 65 mph were reported in Salem by the county sheriff, and numerous large trees were blown down near Bunkner.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBangert-no account filed
October 1996HailBangert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dent 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
Boscobel (historical)0.8 miles20
Condray2.1 miles20
Cooksey3.3 miles19
Howes4.3 miles17
Short Bend4.7 miles18
Dent Ford6.1 miles18
Hobson6.2 miles20
Deep Ford7.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740655. 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.