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Broseley, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ash Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63932. It stands on Menorkenut Slough Number 19. The Survey maps it on the Broseley quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Broseley within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Broseley between 1996 and 2020, burning about 22 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2

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
25 August 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177985-01201-07042018-1128
25 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177992-01201-07252018-1534
2 July 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251226-01201-06182020-1429
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251212-01201-04042020-1440
10 December 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation189965-01201-12102019-1514
4 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation189959-01201-11042019-1325

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broseley in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Broseley$500,000Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph. This tornado passed across Highway 51 about a mile south of Broseley. A farm machine shed was leveled. Numerous other sheds or small structures were damaged or destroyed. Large irrigation piping was blown hundreds of feet in varying directions. Farm implements were blown over, and two camper units were rolled over. At least four houses received minor to moderate damage to roofs, siding, and windows. Numerous trees were uprooted. There was also some spotty straight-line wind damage to outbuildings and trees just north and east of the tornado track. This tornado was the first of several that were spawned by the same eastward moving supercell.
October 2013Tornado (EF1)Broseley$100,000One mobile home was overturned. There was shingle damage to one home. Another home sustained partial roof loss. An agricultural pivot irrigation system was overturned. Several large trees and branches were snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 100 mph.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindBroseley$30,000A mobile home was blown away, overturned, and destroyed. The mobile home was evacuated shortly before the storm hit.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBroseley$25,000A small grain bin was blown about one-quarter mile.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBroseley$20,000Four power poles and two feeder lines were taken down along Highway 53 southeast of Poplar Bluff.
April 2008Flash FloodBroseley$20,000Along the Black River, a temporary levee near County Road 606 failed. The temporary levee was built to replace a levee that failed during the March 18 record flood. Behind the levee break, water up to three feet deep covered a 15 to 20 square mile area. State Highway AA and many county roads were impassable. At least one house on Route AA was flooded again. A shelter was opened for evacuees in the path of the floodwaters. About 50 homes along Highway AA and nearby county roads were notified to evacuate. The flooding from this levee break was much less severe than the original break that occurred during the March 18 record flood. Numerous low-lying fields and bottomlands were underwater. Farmland south of Poplar Bluff was flooded.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindBroseley$20,000A trailer near the intersection of Highway 51 and Highway P was destroyed by high winds.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBroseley$2,000A metal carport was lofted and thrown into a nearby field.
June 2019Flash FloodBroseley-Water was over roads.
September 2012HailBroseley-The hail was reported at the intersection of Highway AA and County Road 629.
June 2011HailBroseley-Hail lasted five to ten minutes.
April 2021HailBroseley-no account filed
February 2007HailBroseley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Mayberry1.2 miles12
Batesville1.7 miles9
Nyssa2.4 miles9
Hanleyville2.7 miles12
Quercus3.0 miles9
Hicoria Spur3.6 miles9
Rossville4.0 miles9
Menorkanut4.1 miles9

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 BroseleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4975399The 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 735532. 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.