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Burtville, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65336. It stands on Coperas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burtville quadrangle.

Burtville within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

In the county-history sources

14,319 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jefferson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jefferson Township - 14,319 words.

Fires near this place

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Burtville between 2003 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177832-05130-09252018-1508
9 August 2018Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177511-05130-08092018-1447
4 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179015-05130-07162019-1429
14 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176679-05130-04062018-1031

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burtville in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 2 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
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Burtville-A brief tornado formed near Whiteman Air Force Base near Warrensburg, Missouri, and lasted only a couple minutes before dissipating. Little to no damage was reported from this tornado; however, it was noted in the official observation from the Whiteman AFB tower.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Burtville-A brief EF0 tornado touchdown was reported north of PP highway at 1645 CST. The tonado lifted at 1646 CST. The brief touchdown was in in rural open country, with no damage reported.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Bristle Ridge3.3 miles20
Henrietta5.1 miles19
Owsley5.9 miles19
Sutherland6.5 miles19
Bowmansville6.5 miles20
Montserrat6.8 miles23
Cornelia6.8 miles20
Knob Noster7.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740713. 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.