BlockBeulah, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65436. It stands on South Sherrill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Edgar Springs quadrangle1:48000
- 1945 USGS Edgar Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Beulah quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Edgar Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 2004 USGS Beulah quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
31 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,010 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 July 2012 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | BLACK CAT |
| 4 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 April 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 29 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | RED |
| 29 April 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | OLD BOB |
| 25 April 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 22 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | not named |
| 16 April 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | CCC |
| 12 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | BRADFORD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2024 | Flood | Beulah | $2,000,000 | Of the $1 million in damages to roads and bridges across the county, the worst damages were located along the Big Piney near Buelah, followed by the Newburg and Duke areas. Additionally, four homes suffered major damages. |
| April 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Beulah | - | This is a continuation of the tornado that touched down at 20:58 CST...seven miles north northeast of Licking in northeast Texas County, Missouri. The tornado crossed into Phelps County near CR 6510 were it uprooted trees and then dissipated as it approached Sherrill Creek. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Beulah | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Beulah | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Beulah | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blooming Rose | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Craddock | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Duke | 5.6 miles | 23 | |
| Edgar Springs | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Flat | 8.4 miles | 19 | |
| Spring Creek | 11.1 miles | 22 | |
| Yancy Mills | 12.3 miles | 26 | |
| Vida | 17.2 miles | 26 |
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 Beulah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3471666 | The 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 748809. 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.
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.