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Chalk Level, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64776. The Survey maps it on the Monegaw Springs quadrangle.

Chalk Level within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Chalk Level between 1992 and 2014, burning about 4,521 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 September 2000Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 1999Arson/incendiarism390 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined106 acresMissouri Department of ConservationLICHEN GLADE
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1,017 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1995Debris and open burning143 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined162 acresMissouri Department of ConservationGREATHOUSE
4 April 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Chalk Level: 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
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chalk Level in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindChalk Level$2,500Report of two power poles down.
July 2020Flash FloodChalk Level-Several Roads and low water crossing were flooded and impassable between Lowery City and Osceola due to heavy rain and flood waters. These included Highway D and 175th Road South of Highway B.
February 2019HailChalk Level-Facebook photos showed quarter size hail west of Lowry City.
June 2018Tornado (EF1)Chalk Level-A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado touched down 5 miles west of Osceola and tracked east 2.4 miles for around 5 minutes before lifting 3 miles north northwest of Osceola. The maximum path width was 200 yards.
June 2015Flash FloodChalk Level-Highway patrol reported water over several county roads.

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Monegaw Springs4.7 miles20
Ohio4.8 miles17
Lowry City5.4 miles20
Iuka Springs5.9 miles19
Osceola6.4 miles20
Johnson City6.5 miles19
Chloe7.5 miles20
Osage Heights7.6 miles16

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 Chalk LevelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28035671The 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 755874. 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.