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Buell, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montgomery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63361. It stands on White Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buell quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Buell within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Buell between 1992 and 2014, burning about 10 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 February 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 February 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 February 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 November 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 October 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Buell: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Parker-RussellFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buell in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007Tornado (EF0)Buell$50,000The tornado touched down near the intersection of CR 165 and CR 168. It travelled to the northeast destroying one outbuilding and damaging or destroying numerous trees. Also, the southeast corner of a hog confinement building was damaged, leading to a partial roof collapse. Some of the debris was thrown a third of a mile to the northeast. An unoccupied car was also damaged. The tornado lifted and dissipated on CR 160 about a quarter of a mile south of CR 164.
May 2011HailBuell-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBuell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Bellflower4.8 miles16
Montgomery City5.2 miles21
Gamma5.6 miles16
Middletown6.5 miles16
Wellsville7.4 miles16
Prices Branch7.9 miles20
New Florence8.6 miles20
Marling9.7 miles16

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 BuellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4985369The 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 714998. 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.