Butcher, Missouri

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.

• 1884 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1951 USGS Hermitage quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:100000

Wilson's History of Hickory County, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Butcher between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,327 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Quincy
• Galmey
• Weaubleau
• Wheatland

Every fire recorded in Hickory County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Butcher: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hickory County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butcher in 1 storm report in 2017: 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.

Every storm recorded in Hickory County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 737877. 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.