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Beaman, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Bowling Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65301. It stands on Olive Branch. The Survey maps it on the Beaman quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Beaman within Pettis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beaman between 2006 and 2014, burning about 163 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined158 acresMissouri Department of ConservationZ ROAD FIRE
28 January 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pettis County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Beaman: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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
Carpenter BankIronPast Producer
Lennartz ProspectBarium-Barite, ZincPast Producer
Link Moore Zinc MineZinc, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Mcenroe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pettis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaman in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBeaman-Power lines and trees were knocked down.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Beaman-At 1152CST a brief EF0 tornado touchdown was observed 2.2 miles northeast of Beaman. The tornado touched down and then went right back up. No damage was observed.
September 2001HailBeaman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pettis 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
Newland4.2 miles18
Georgetown5.5 miles18
Smithton5.7 miles18
Sedalia6.2 miles22
Longwood10.0 miles18
Postal10.0 miles18
Hughesville10.3 miles23
Dresden10.7 miles23

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 BeamanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4876197The 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 729702. 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.