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Bixby, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Dent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65439. The Survey maps it on the Viburnum East quadrangle.

Bixby within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Bixby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,469 acres in total. None started naturally. 56 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/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4

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 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresMark Twain National ForestGOODWATER FIRE
1 September 2007Debris and open burning19 acresMark Twain National ForestBAY
1 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestRECYCLE
29 August 1995Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBLACKJACK
13 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestAIRPORT ROAD
11 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMark Twain National ForestPACK
6 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestBUICK
28 June 2012Arson/incendiarism616 acresMark Twain National ForestEAST END

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bixby: 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Copper, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Manganese. 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
(Facility) Buick SmelterLead, Smelter, Silver, Zinc, Smelter, CopperPlant
Boss-BixbyCopper, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Manganese, Magnesite, Arsenic, Aluminum, Molybdenum, Chromium, Lead, Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt, Vanadium, SulfurProspect1956
Buick MineZinc, Lead, Cobalt, Silver, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProducer1960, 1969
Magmont MineLead, Cadmium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelProducer1962, 1968
Central ServicesLeadUnknown
Red Point Land Fe OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bixby in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindBixby-The survey of damage indicated a large swath of straight line winds with estimated speeds of 60 to 70 mph over the northern third of Reynolds county and large parts of Iron county. Much of the damage was due to fallen trees. While trees were down over most of Reynolds and Iron counties, the tree damage was most concentrated in an area between Bixby and Reynolds, eastward to an area between Ironton and Glover. Within that area, microbursts occurred, with estimated wind speeds up to 100 mph. One particularly intense microburst was surveyed along Highway 21 about 4 miles south of Arcadia where a radio tower was blown down. In these areas, it was noted that up to 80 percent of the forest had been felled. Scattered structural damage, mostly to roofs and outbuildings, was also noted, including the Brown Shoe building in Ironton.
May 2023HailBixby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Red Point2.0 miles22
Buick3.7 miles20
Viburnum3.9 miles22
East End4.4 miles22
Good Water5.2 miles22
Goodland6.2 miles22
Redmondville8.1 miles20
Maxwells Mill8.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 748874. 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.