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Buick, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Dent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65440. It lies near Cow Mire Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Greeley quadrangle.

Buick within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Buick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,101 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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/incendiarism43
Debris and open burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMark Twain National ForestLOG GAP RIDGE
1 September 2007Debris and open burning19 acresMark Twain National ForestBAY
1 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestRECYCLE
29 August 1995Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBLACKJACK
11 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMark Twain National ForestPACK
6 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestBUICK
9 May 2018Debris and open burning14 acresMark Twain National ForestOATES
15 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Buick: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Cobalt, Silver, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Copper. 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
(Facility) Buick SmelterLead, Smelter, Silver, Zinc, Smelter, CopperPlant
Boss-BixbyCopper, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Manganese, Magnesite, Arsenic, Aluminum, Molybdenum, Chromium, Lead, Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt, Vanadium, SulfurProspect1956
Brushy Creek DivisionLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, CadmiumUnknown1959, 1973
Buick MineZinc, Lead, Cobalt, Silver, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProducer1960, 1969
Magmont MineLead, Cadmium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelProducer1962, 1968
Viburnum TrendLead, Zinc, Cobalt, Silver, Copper, Cadmium, NickelProducer1955, 1960
Red Point Land Fe OccurrenceIronOccurrence
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buick in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
May 2023HailBuick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Red Point3.0 miles22
Bixby3.7 miles22
East End6.8 miles22
Goodland6.9 miles22
Viburnum7.5 miles22
Redmondville8.4 miles20
Good Water8.5 miles22
Maxwells Mill10.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749103. 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.