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Caney Creek, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Sylvania Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63771. It lies near Lone Rock. The Survey maps it on the Chaffee quadrangle.

Caney Creek within Scott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Caney Creek between 1992 and 1997, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning3
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
1 July 1996Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 July 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 June 1997Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Caney Creek: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Ceramo Co Inc PlantClayProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caney Creek in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2023Flash FloodCaney Creek-A photo posted on social media showed flooded streets and water threatening homes in Sikeston. Emergency management reported flash flooding of County Road 217 east of Chaffee. A trained spotter reported street flooding in Diehlstadt. A personal weather station in Benton measured 6.29 inches from midnight to late afternoon on the 3rd.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Oran3.5 miles19
Chaffee3.9 miles20
Kenton (historical)4.4 miles20
Parker4.6 miles19
Bleda4.9 miles19
New Hamburg5.0 miles21
Perkins5.2 miles18
Rockview5.6 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 715355. 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.