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Cardy, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63549. The Survey maps it on the Millard quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Cardy within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cardy in 2004, burning about 107 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined107 acresMissouri Department of ConservationHIDDEN HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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
Cottage1.5 miles12
Mercyville3.3 miles12
Elmer4.2 miles12
Gifford4.9 miles11
Plainview5.7 miles12
La Plata5.7 miles9
Walnut6.6 miles12
Love Lake6.6 miles10

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 CardyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14693515The 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 740721. 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.