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Cherry Box, Missouri

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63451. The Survey maps it on the Leonard quadrangle.

Cherry Box within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Box in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 5 flash flood, 2 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 2008Flash FloodCherry Box$1,000Over 3 inches of rain fell on Shelby county on already saturated soils. This caused widespread flash flooding. Numerous secondary roads were flooded including Highway 151 north of Clarence, Highway N north of Lentner, and Highways K and 15 near Shelbyville.
May 2019Flash FloodCherry Box-Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Highway J just west of the intersection with Highway W, Highway W south of intersection with Highway J, and Highway K just west of Shelbyville.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCherry Box-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and tree limbs across northern portions of the county. In Bethel, a power pole was snapped off.
May 2019Flash FloodCherry Box-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding county wide. Numerous roads were flooded and the county government office had flooding issues.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindCherry Box-Thunderstorm winds blew down a machine shed as well as numerous large tree limbs and a fence in Cherry Box.
July 2010Flash FloodCherry Box-Up to 9 inches of rain fell over a 24 hour period causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Routes M and H near Leonard, Route K west of Shelbyville along Black Creek, and Highway N southwest of Shelbyville.
June 2008Flash FloodCherry Box-Slow moving thunderstorms dumped up to 5 inches of rain over Shelby county. Numerous roads were closed due to flooding including Route M just west of Route BB, Route H near the intersection of Routes H and K, Route N north of Lentner, and Route W just south of Route J. Also, in the town of Bethel, flood waters filled a couple of basements causing moderate damage and a propane tank tipped over in the flood waters, snapping the gas line. No injuries were reported.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Lakeland2.9 miles10
Leonard3.6 miles8
Hagers Grove6.5 miles8
Epworth7.8 miles9
Kirby8.4 miles9
Kellerville8.9 miles8
Hebron11.1 miles9
Bethel11.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735556. 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.

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.