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Butts, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Courtois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65441. It lies near Henpeck Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Huzzah quadrangle.

Butts within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Butts between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,056 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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/incendiarism22
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 April 2001Arson/incendiarism25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1992Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 1997Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMark Twain National ForestGOBBLERS KNOB
15 April 2004Debris and open burning6.1 acresMark Twain National ForestGIBBS SPRING
14 April 1997Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2019Arson/incendiarism83 acresMark Twain National ForestDRY CREEK
11 April 2006Debris and open burning4.5 acresMark Twain National ForestEMORY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Butts: 31 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc. 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
Bleeding Hill Copper MinesLead, Sulfur-Pyrite, Iron, CopperPast Producer
Harman MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Hinch Hill MineCopper, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
Kings Mountain MinesBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Lead Mountain MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Mathews Mines NorthLead, ZincPast Producer
Ransom's DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Stanford MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Willians MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butts in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 1 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 2019Tornado (EF0)Butts-The tornado began on the south side of the Huzzah River approximately 8 miles east northeast of Steelville where a barn was damaged. The tornado then tracked generally eastward hitting a farmstead at the end of Mullen Road. Most of the damage consisted of downed trees and broken branches. Several outbuildings and two small grain bins were destroyed, along with superficial damage to two homes. The remainder of damage consisted of downed trees and branches as the tornado tracked eastward through the northern edge of Butts, just missing a large outdoor outfitter and recreational area on the Courtois Creek. The tornado ended within a valley east of the intersection of Thunder Valley Road and Christy Mine Road, less than one mile from the Crawford/Washington County line. The tornado was rated EF0 with estimated peak winds of 85 mph. The path length was 5.75 miles with a max path width of 100 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported with this tornado.
February 2016HailButts-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Service1.8 miles21
Scotia3.8 miles21
Four Points4.4 miles23
Hinch4.6 miles21
Harrison Mills5.8 miles21
Berryman6.2 miles23
Huzzah6.3 miles21
Westover6.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749143. 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.