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Banner, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Kaolin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63623. It stands on Keesling Branch. The Survey maps it on the Banner quadrangle.

Banner within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 19 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Banner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2

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
15 May 2012Arson/incendiarism5.2 acresMark Twain National ForestHATCHERY
13 May 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBELL MOUNTAIN
4 April 2004Arson/incendiarism15 acresMark Twain National ForestO HIGHWAY 3
4 April 2004Arson/incendiarism11 acresMark Twain National ForestO HIGHWAY 2
4 April 2004Arson/incendiarism33 acresMark Twain National ForestO HIGHWAY 1
3 April 2005Debris and open burning1.9 acresMark Twain National ForestYOUNT
26 April 2000Smoking20 acresMark Twain National ForestPRUITT MOUNTAIN
13 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestJOHNSON MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Banner: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Lead, Copper. 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
Kaolin MineClayPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Burt BankIronOccurrenceSurface
Eaton Iron MineIronPast Producer
Robinson MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banner in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2024Heavy RainBanner-The mesonet station in Council Bluff measured 7.94 inches of rain between November 4th and 5th.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBanner-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree at the intersection of Highway 32 and County Road 41.
April 2019Tornado (EF1)Banner-A weak short-lived tornado destroyed a farm outbuilding just west of County Road 21. Damage was strewn to the northeast of the track. The tornado was rated EF1 with a path length of 0.06 miles and a max path width of 30 yards. No deaths or injuries occurred with this tornado.
May 2024HailBanner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Shepard (historical)2.8 miles20
Enough (historical)4.4 miles20
Belleview5.0 miles24
Pin Hook5.4 miles24
Maxwells Mill7.3 miles20
Redmondville8.7 miles20
Graniteville8.8 miles24
Snow Hollow Lake9.2 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 748661. 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.