Bloomington, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63532. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bevier North quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Bloomington within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1937 USGS Elmer quadrangle1:48000
1942 USGS Elmer quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Bevier North quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bloomington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 363 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
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
7 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 2002	Debris and open burning	82 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	240 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	190173-06134-03072020-1304
15 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 February 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 February 2002	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 February 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bevier	3.5 miles	9
Seney	3.7 miles	12
Callao	4.2 miles	12
Number Eight	4.5 miles	9
Axtell	5.0 miles	10
Cash	5.4 miles	12
Lyda (historical)	5.9 miles	10
Macon	6.0 miles	11

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 Bloomington	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4928326	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 740681. 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.