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Christian Center, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 2004. It stands in North Linn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65721. It lies near Logan Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Selmore quadrangle.

Christian Center within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Christian Center between 1992 and 2017, burning about 28 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use7.3 acresMark Twain National Forest127
7 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestRED BRIDGE
5 March 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestJONES RANCH
2 October 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestMOTORHOME
10 January 2017Equipment and vehicle use18 acresMark Twain National ForestBULL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Christian Center: 18 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Mary ArnoldZincPast ProducerUnderground
Miller DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Mon-Ark MinesZinc, LeadPast Producer1857
Alma MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Ground Hog MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Ribeck MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Bain + Page MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Bray MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Lang MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Mary Arnold MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Christian County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christian Center in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindChristian Center$15,000A roof of a hay barn was damaged and collapsed onto a nearby horse barn along Missouri Highway W south of Ozark.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindChristian Center$10,000Several reports of trees down over the road and power lines down on Highway W south of Ozark were received.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindChristian Center$1,000A wooden swing set was damaged.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindChristian Center-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindChristian Center-Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs and produced penny size hail.
April 2014HailChristian Center-no account filed
June 2008HailChristian Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian 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
Lawing (historical)1.2 miles13
Shady Grove2.9 miles13
Selmore3.8 miles13
McCracken5.3 miles23
Green Mound Ridge5.6 miles12
Saunders5.7 miles13
Chadwick5.9 miles13
Ozark5.9 miles23

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 Christian CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30595021The 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 749351. 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.