BlockBefore

Clearwater, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63670. It stands on Coldwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coffman quadrangle. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Clearwater within Ste. Genevieve County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Clearwater between 1995 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 April 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMark Twain National ForestANDERSON HOLLOW
18 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178129-09533-04182019-1945
18 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178130-09533-04182018-1645
8 March 2020Debris and open burning27 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190195-09526-03082020-1530
9 January 2012Arson/incendiarism20 acresMark Twain National ForestCOUNTY LINE
31 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176234-09435-01312018-0912

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Clearwater: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Iron, Lead, Nickel, Cobalt. 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
Avon MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Iron-Pb-Ni-Cu-CoCopper, Iron, Lead, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-Cobalt-Nickel-CopperCobalt, Copper, Lead, NickelPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-Zinc-Copper-IronCopper, Iron, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Sutton T.J. LandIronOccurrence
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Avon ProspectLeadPast Producer1848
Saline Valley MineLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearwater in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2018Flash FloodClearwater-Up to 5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over southern portions of Ste. Genevieve County. Several roads were flooded and Saline Creek was out of its banks where it runs parallel to Boyd Road.

Every storm recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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
Coffman3.2 miles19
Avon4.6 miles19
Minnith5.2 miles19
Womack6.6 miles21
River aux Vases7.5 miles19
Pickel8.1 miles18
Ozora8.8 miles19
Weingarten9.3 miles18

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 ClearwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5130920The 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 735962. 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.