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Brownfield, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Gasconade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65556. The Survey maps it on the Brownfield quadrangle.

Brownfield within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Brownfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,647 acres in total. None started naturally. 72 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/incendiarism72
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 August 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresMark Twain National ForestPERSISTANT
20 August 2001Arson/incendiarism24 acresMark Twain National ForestSOUTH
20 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestBALE
20 August 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestNORTH
15 August 2012Debris and open burning31 acresMark Twain National ForestFALCON
15 June 2017Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 1992Debris and open burning18 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1992Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownfield in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2007: 3 hail, 2 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 2004Thunderstorm WindBrownfield-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees near the community of Brownfield.
March 2007HailBrownfield-no account filed
July 2005HailBrownfield-no account filed
July 2005HailBrownfield-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBrownfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laclede 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
Adam Ford2.8 miles17
Falcon4.6 miles17
Winnipeg4.9 miles17
Casey Ford5.1 miles17
Drynob5.9 miles17
Nebo6.6 miles17
Abo6.7 miles17
Harrill Ford7.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749047. 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.