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Big Piney, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Piney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65550. The Survey maps it on the Big Piney quadrangle.

Big Piney within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Big Piney between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,608 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural2
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
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPOCKET EDDIE
3 April 1996Arson/incendiarism42 acresMark Twain National ForestROUND BALE
23 April 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestDUKE 423
21 April 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestDIZZY 2
2 April 2007Arson/incendiarism240 acresMark Twain National ForestPOCKET EDDY
18 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestWILDCAT
11 April 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestRANGER
1 April 2009Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestDIZZY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Big Piney: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Ta 256 Quarry + MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ta 256 Pit + PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ta 256 S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Piney in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 flash 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
July 2015Flash FloodBig Piney-Walnut Road near the Big Piney River was flooded and impassable.
July 2011HailBig Piney-no account filed
August 2003HailBig Piney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Ross Bridge2.7 miles23
Bloodland3.1 miles20
Palace4.2 miles19
Cookville6.1 miles20
Saint Annie (historical)7.0 miles20
Greenview8.6 miles17
Hanna9.0 miles20
Gospel Ridge10.8 miles22

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 Big PineyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471712The 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 748846. 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.