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Buckhorn, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63655. It stands on Middle Fork Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cascade quadrangle. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Buckhorn within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 453 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
17 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177375-06205-08052018-1642
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177374-06205-08042018-1850
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 May 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 May 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178696-06205-04072019-1900
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178693-06205-04032019-1930

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buckhorn: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Otto Senter MineManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhorn in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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 2026Thunderstorm WindBuckhorn-Thunderstorm winds collapsed an outbuilding at Buckhorn General Baptist Church, downed a tree over a road near Buckhorn, then blew a roof from a mobile home in Marquand.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindBuckhorn-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees around town.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Buckhorn-The tornado originated in Carter County then crossed into Wayne County (WFO Paducah's CWA) before crossing into Madison County about 3 miles southwest of Buckhorn and travelled to the northeast. In Madison County, numerous large trees were blown down before the tornado lifted and dissipated about a mile northwest of Buckhorn. The total path length for the tornado was 47.4 miles with a max width of 1200 yards and a max EF rating of EF3.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBuckhorn-Storm spotters reported trees down on Highway 67 west of Buckhorn.
October 2001HailBuckhorn-The County Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 1999HailBuckhorn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Allbright3.4 miles17
Twelvemile4.4 miles19
Zion5.9 miles20
Klendike7.9 miles19
Saco8.2 miles19
Marquand9.0 miles19
Varsh Ford9.1 miles19
Central9.3 miles20

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 BuckhornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985845The 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 714979. 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.