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Calm, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Cedar Bluff Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63942. It stands on Frederick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Billmore quadrangle.

Calm within Oregon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Calm between 1992 and 2019, burning about 553 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 July 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 July 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 June 2018Debris and open burning3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177769-09147-06072018-1835
2 May 2015Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation123610-07525-05022015-1405
1 May 1992Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Calm: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Oregon County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calm in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 flood, 4 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2024Tornado (EF0)Calm1 hurt, $200,000A NWS storm survey concluded that an EF-1 tornado occurred in far southeast Oregon County to the east of Myrtle. Two homes suffered siding damage, five barns/outbuildings were destroyed, along with numerous trees suffering damage that ranged from limb damage to being uprooted along County Road 288 before the tornado crossed the Eleven Point River near the Myrtle Access and crossed into Ripley County north of County Road 286. One injury was reported. Damage cost estimates only include the Oregon County portion of the tornado track.
December 2015Flash FloodCalm$500,000Highway 142 was closed near the Eleven Point River. Numerous low water crossings across the county were flooded. Several county roads were damaged. Several campground areas along the Ozarks Scenic Riverways were damaged. This storm report will contain the damage estimates for the entire county for this event.
November 2024FloodCalm$61,000County property damages were reported throughout the entire county, primarily to dirt roads and bridges. Damage cost estimates are a reflection of the county as a whole.
April 2025Flash FloodCalm-Missouri Route 142 at the Eleven Point River was flooded and impassable.
March 2023FloodCalm-Highway 142 at the Eleven Point River was flooded and impassable.
May 2016Flash FloodCalm-MODOT reported that Highway 142 was impassable due to flooding at the Eleven Point River.
August 2016FloodCalm-State Highway 142 was closed due to flooding.
March 2015FloodCalm-State Highway 142 was flooded and closed.
December 2013FloodCalm-MODOT reported that Highway 142 was closed in both directions in the vicinity of the Eleven Point River.
January 2013FloodCalm-MODOT reported that Missouri Highway 142 was flooded on the Eleven Point River.
April 2011Flash FloodCalm-Route 142 was closed due to flooding.
April 1998HailCalm-Hail accumulated to a depth of 3 inches along Highway U, between Highways 160 and 142.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCalm-Thunderstorms winds downed 8 inch diameter trees.

Every storm recorded in Oregon 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
Griswold2.9 miles14
Billmore2.9 miles14
Deckard-Y4.9 miles12
Jobe5.2 miles12
Jobe (historical)6.2 miles12
Myrtle6.3 miles12
Riverton7.0 miles14
Boze Mill7.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749163. 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.