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Chloride, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63620. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glover quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Chloride within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Chloride between 1992 and 2018, burning about 695 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresMark Twain National Forest131 FIRE
13 July 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined74 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 May 1997Natural4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMark Twain National ForestCORNER
2 April 1997Debris and open burning280 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Chloride: 7 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Lead, Refiner. 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
Biser DiggingsFeldspar, IronPast Producer
GloverLead, RefinerProducer
Unknown - ClayClayProspect
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - TitaniumTitaniumPast Producer
Hollman Bros QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ketcherside Gap Copper DepositCopperPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - ManganeseManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chloride in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 tornado. 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
March 2006Tornado (F2)Chloride-The tornado that started in Reynolds entered Iron County and crossed Highway 49 between Chloride and Sabula causing considerable tree damage in the Mark Twain National Forest. The damage through the forest was about one quarter mile wide. The tornado crossed Route E west of Patterson Mountain where it damaged a barn and the roof and siding of a home. The tornado then continued into Madison County.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Berryman1.1 miles19
Glover1.8 miles19
Allen Mills3.1 miles25
Hogan3.5 miles25
Sabula3.9 miles19
Annapolis6.9 miles20
Minimum7.9 miles20
Arcadia9.3 miles25

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 ChlorideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985373The 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 749349. 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.