Clifton, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63561. The Survey maps it on the Downing NW quadrangle.

Clifton within Schuyler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1903 USGS Edina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Downing NW quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Clifton between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	7

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 May 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
16 May 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
6 April 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 April 2014	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
10 April 2014	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
29 November 2020	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 October 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schuyler 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Germania	0.3 miles	9
Queen City	4.6 miles	11
Lancaster	6.9 miles	7
Julesburg	6.9 miles	11
Pronax (historical)	7.1 miles	9
Greentop	7.1 miles	11
Downing	7.4 miles	9
Glenwood	7.9 miles	7

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 Clifton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28054313	The 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 733605. 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.