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Berwick, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Berwick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65723. It stands on Hutchison Branch. The Survey maps it on the Pierce City quadrangle.

Berwick within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Berwick in 1997, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 March 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Berwick: 66 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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 - SsSilicaPast Producer
Culpepper DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Dorris & Cavender MineLeadPast Producer
Foster MineLeadPast Producer
Unknown - PbLeadPast Producer
Frey-Cummings-Suprise Mining Co.ZincPast Producer1902
Navy Bean-Reynolds MineZincPast Producer1924
Newtonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pierce City Lime Co. North QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pierce City Lime Co. South QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berwick in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flood. 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
May 2022FloodBerwick-Highway W at the Pryor Branch low water crossing was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Center Point1.3 miles11
Jolly2.9 miles11
Wentworth4.3 miles11
Ritchey4.8 miles11
Talmage City5.4 miles18
Chester (historical)6.0 miles11
Newtonia6.2 miles11
Park6.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740675. 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.