BlockBuckhart, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Champion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65638. It stands on West Fork Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vanzant quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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 Vanzant quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ava quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 2004 USGS Vanzant quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Buckhart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,451 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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/incendiarism | 39 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 July 1999 | Debris and open burning | 153 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 8 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 May 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 59 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 126850-03400-05012015-1700 |
| 9 April 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhart in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Lightning | Buckhart | $5,000 | A barn was damaged by a lightning strike near the intersection of Highway CC and County Road 256. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Buckhart | - | Nickle sized hail was reported. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Buckhart | - | Water was reported over County Road 247 at Brush Creek. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drury | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Sedan (historical) | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Gentryville | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Tedrick (historical) | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Holtville | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Fielden | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Champion | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Blanche | 5.2 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749088. 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.