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Cedar Springs, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Cedar Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64744. The Survey maps it on the Filley quadrangle.

Cedar Springs within Cedar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Springs between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,076 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
26 July 2011Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism293 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2014Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 March 1994Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 March 1992Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresMissouri Department of ConservationK ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Springs: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Springs in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1997Thunderstorm WindCedar Springs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Lebeck1.5 miles19
Hackleman Corner1.8 miles18
Coal Hill2.1 miles19
Fairview (historical)4.4 miles18
Willowville5.9 miles17
El Dorado Springs6.8 miles19
Ivy7.2 miles18
Caplinger Mills7.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729858. 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.