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Capps, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65082. It stands on Humphrey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Anthony quadrangle.

Capps within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Capps between 1993 and 2020, burning about 228 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
16 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 March 1994Debris and open burning75 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresMissouri Department of ConservationMARSH HOLLOW
15 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Capps: 16 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Capp DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Jones MineLeadPast Producer
Albertson BankIronPast Producer
Bowers BankIronPast Producer
Fancher BankIronPast Producer
Laclede BankIronPast Producer
Mcdonald Bank Number TwoIronPast Producer
Tobin BankIronPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capps in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 hail. 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
July 2012HailCapps-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Saint Elizabeth3.0 miles19
Marys Home4.7 miles19
Hoecker6.4 miles19
Saint Anthony6.5 miles19
Tuscumbia7.3 miles19
Watkins8.8 miles19
Ulman9.0 miles19
Brays9.3 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CappsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986009The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729455. 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.