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Beverly, Missouri

46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Fair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64079. It stands on Bee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Platte City quadrangle.

Beverly within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 46 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

10 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Beverly between 2015 and 2018, burning about 33 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
19 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County119
19 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1265
28 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County1112
15 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresLeavenworth County81
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service47
11 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service455
28 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service387
16 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresLeavenworth County25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Beverly: 21 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Baker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Baker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Benner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Harris QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spratt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spratt 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 Platte County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beverly in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 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
May 2003Tornado (F1)Beverly$1,950,000Tornado in Leavenworth county crossed the Missouri River into Platte county around Missouri Route 92, near its intersection with North Farley Road. F1 damage was noted and extended one and a half miles to the east, with a width around 50 yards. Two barns had major damage and there were 16 homes with minor damage. There was also tree and fence damage noted.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBeverly-Several reports of downed limbs and wires near Ode Road.

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
West Platte2.1 miles44
Buxton3.4 miles46
Weston3.5 miles46
Stillings3.5 miles49
East Leavenworth3.8 miles46
Tracy4.0 miles44
Platte City4.5 miles46
Woodruff5.9 miles44

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 BeverlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27983663The 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 740676. 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.