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Claud, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65674. The Survey maps it on the Arnica quadrangle.

Claud within Cedar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Claud between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,742 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined62 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 July 1992Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1997Debris and open burning25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation138824-09339-04092016-1311
7 April 2018Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177535-09339-04072018-1346

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar 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 Claud: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claud in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2026HailClaud$500,000Hail to the size of baseballs was reported in a mainly rural portion of the county. Damage to roofs and siding on several homes, multiple vehicles, outbuildings and equipment was reported.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindClaud$1,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees while causing minor damage to an outbuilding at the intersection of Highway J and Highway N.

Every storm recorded in Cedar 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
Arnica4.3 miles17
Graceland4.9 miles18
Caplinger Mills5.1 miles18
Hamlet5.4 miles17
Fairview (historical)8.3 miles18
Ivy8.6 miles18
Hackleman Corner9.0 miles18
Stockton9.1 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 715900. 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.