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Beach, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65632. The Survey maps it on the Beach quadrangle.

Beach within Webster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Beach between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,036 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
17 September 1999Debris and open burning17 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137199-11203-03042016-1315
28 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137210-11203-03282016-1559
23 March 2014Arson/incendiarism505 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation137207-11203-03222016-1045
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined254 acresMissouri Department of ConservationLEADMINE NORTH
17 March 1994Debris and open burning9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beach: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Webster County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beach in 20 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 8 flash flood, 5 flood, 3 hail, 2 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
January 2008Tornado (EF1)Beach$50,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in rural northwest Webster County and tracked into southern Dallas County. The tornado damaged one home and several outbuildings.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindBeach$25,000A portion of a garage roof was peeled off and landed on a parked truck. Several trees were reported down or damaged.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBeach$15,000The roof of a barn was peeled off and some large branches were downed.
April 2026HailBeach-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2025Flash FloodBeach-Route W at Givens Branch was flooded and impassable.
April 2025FloodBeach-State Highways W and EE at Givens Branch from Glad to Redbird Roads were flooded and impassable.
June 2025Flash FloodBeach-State Highway W was closed due to flooding along Givins Branch.
March 2023FloodBeach-Highway W at Givins Branch was flooded and impassable.
May 2022FloodBeach-Shady Grove Road was flooded and impassable at a low water area.
May 2022FloodBeach-State Highway W at the Givins Branch low water crossing was closed due to flooding.
March 2021FloodBeach-The low water crossing on Highway W at Givins Branch was closed due to flooding.
July 2021Flash FloodBeach-Highway W was flooded and impassable north of Highway EE and at Hawk Pond Branch.
July 2021Flash FloodBeach-State Highway W was flooded and impassable at Givens Branch.
January 2020Flash FloodBeach-State Highway W was closed at Givins Branch Creek due to flooding.
May 2020HailBeach-Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2019Flash FloodBeach-Flooding closed the roadway on Route W, south of Route EE at the low water crossing over Givins Branch.
March 2013Heavy RainBeach-Low water crossings at Givens Branch off of Highway E and Highway EE and Highway W had water over the road.
August 2013Flash FloodBeach-One to two feet of water was flowing over Highway W.
September 2009Flash FloodBeach-State Route W was closed due to flooding.
June 2008HailBeach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Dermott3.5 miles13
Elkland3.9 miles19
Forkners Hill3.9 miles13
Conklin4.5 miles19
Sampson6.2 miles13
Niangua Junction6.5 miles13
Cross Way6.6 miles20
Marshfield7.0 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28120787The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735502. 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.