BlockChampion, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Champion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65717. It stands on Clever Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brushyknob quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1937 USGS Buckhart quadrangle1:48000
- 1943 USGS Buckhart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Buckhart quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Brushyknob quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ava quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
76 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Champion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,196 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 16 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 3 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 25 July 1999 | Debris and open burning | 153 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 26 May 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Champion in 1 storm report in 1996: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Hail | Champion | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tedrick (historical) | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Cheney | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Coldspring | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Denlow | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Evans | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Drury | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Buckhart | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Fielden | 4.8 miles | 13 |
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 Champion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27986300 | The 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 740734. 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.
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.