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Cedar City, Missouri

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Summit Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65101. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson City quadrangle.

Cedar City within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cedar City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
19 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136691-01416-05152016-1212
5 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176616-01416-04212018-1349
15 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation135558-01416-03052016-1114

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Cedar City: 21 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Capitol Sand Company Dredge No.2SilicaProducer
Capitol Sand Co DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leonard Barnhart Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holts Summit QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jeff City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jeff-Cole Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Jefferson City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kieselback QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
State Penitentiary QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Callaway County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar City in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2019FloodCedar City$2,000,000The Missouri River at Jefferson City rose above 33 feet during the late evening hours of June 3rd, which is 3 feet above Major Flood stage and remained that high through the evening of June 8th. This was the period when the river was at it's highest levels for this event. The flooding affected Jefferson City Memorial Airport for a couple of months. The terminal building sustained more than 50 percent damage so will have to be torn down and rebuilt to FEMA floodplain standards. The airport tower was flooded as well. The ASOS unit had to be powered off beginning May 22nd until July 30th and had to be repaired once the flood waters went down.
June 2013FloodCedar City$2,000The Missouri River started the month in flood and rose to major flood levels cresting on the 2nd. The river then fell dropping below flood stage on the 7th.
March 2020HailCedar City-A wide swath of large hail fell across southern portions of Callaway County. Hail up to the size of baseballs was reported in Holts Summit and the Lake Mykee areas. There were reports of damage to several vehicles including broken windshields.
August 2016Flash FloodCedar City-Up to three inches of water fell in a short amount of time across far southern Callaway County causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Highway 94 south of Holts Summit.
August 2016Flash FloodCedar City-Up to 5 inches of rain fell onto already saturated ground causing flash flooding across the southern portions of Callaway County. Numerous roads were flooded including the intersection of Routes J and MM. Also, Route OO was flooded in several places.

Every storm recorded in Callaway 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
North Jefferson1.0 miles26
Holts Summit4.2 miles22
Wainwright6.0 miles23
Lake Mykee Town6.7 miles22
Howards Bluff (historical)7.8 miles22
Bakersville (historical)8.6 miles23
Folsom9.5 miles24
Ellerslie (historical)9.6 miles22

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 Cedar CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5270811The 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 715577. 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.