Brushyknob, Missouri

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 Buckhart quadrangle1:48000
• 1943 USGS Buckhart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Buckhart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS Brushyknob quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Ava quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Brushyknob between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,104 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Coldspring
• Vera Cruz
• Champion
• Evans
• Arno
• Cheney

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brushyknob: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brushyknob in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Douglas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740700. 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.