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Bendavis, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Morris Township. The Survey maps it on the Huggins quadrangle. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.

Bendavis within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bendavis between 1992 and 2015, burning about 206 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bendavis: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bendavis in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
February 2006Thunderstorm WindBendavis$20,000Damaging winds from a supercell thunderstorm blew off roofs of a hay barn and a shop in rural west central Texas County. Several trees in the area were also blown over.
March 2024HailBendavis-Report relayed from broadcast media of hail to the size of quarters.
April 2013Heavy RainBendavis-Public reported 2.75 inches of rainfall for a storm total.
June 2008HailBendavis-no account filed
March 2006HailBendavis-no account filed
April 2005HailBendavis-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBendavis-no account filed
August 2003HailBendavis-no account filed
May 1998HailBendavis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Alice1.0 miles14
Huggins1.6 miles14
Fairview2.3 miles14
Fowler4.5 miles14
Bado4.9 miles14
Pleasant Ridge4.9 miles14
Upton5.4 miles14
Dykes5.4 miles14

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 BendavisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4120320The 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 740669. 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.