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Cheney, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in McMurtrey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65717. The Survey maps it on the Brushyknob quadrangle.

Cheney within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 13 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Cheney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,357 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 1995Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 August 2001Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 July 1999Debris and open burning153 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cheney: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Trappist Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cheney in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2026HailCheney$150,000Tennis ball sized hail was reported in a mainly rural area. Damage was reported to a home and farm building and vehicles.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCheney-A large tree was blown down.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCheney-Several trees were blown down along State Route WW.
November 2015FloodCheney-A low water crossing on Highway WW was impassable due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Evans0.8 miles13
Vera Cruz2.8 miles13
Rippee (historical)2.9 miles13
Champion3.2 miles13
Tedrick (historical)3.6 miles14
Sweden3.7 miles13
Fielden4.4 miles13
Coldspring4.5 miles13

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 CheneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984983The 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 734239. 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.