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Cliquot, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Cliquot Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65640. It stands on West Fork Dry Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cliquot quadrangle.

Cliquot within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Cliquot between 1992 and 2019, burning about 644 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
1 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 August 1995Smoking2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179026-08403-07262019-1745
16 April 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 2001Arson/incendiarism185 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178679-08403-04132019-1620
13 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresMissouri Department of Conservation47TH ROAD
8 March 1992Arson/incendiarism15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cliquot: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Cliquot QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cliquot in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 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 2020Thunderstorm WindCliquot$40,000Multiple large limbs were snapped and several outbuilding suffered moderate to significant damage.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Cliquot$15,000An EF-0 tornado touched down about east of the community of Cliquot near East 380th Road and South 109th Road. The tornado lifted about 2 miles South of Pittsburg near Highway 64 and East 318th Road. Numerous large tree branches were broken and tree tops snapped. Severe trees were uprooted. Two houses had minor roof and siding damage. Several fences were damaged. The path length was approximately 10 miles and a path width of 100 yards. Maximum winds were estimated up to 85 mph.
April 1996HailCliquot$500no account filed
April 2026FloodCliquot-Missouri Route 83 at Ables Branch was closed due to flooding.
May 2024HailCliquot-Golf ball size hail was reported.
April 2023HailCliquot-Baseball sized hail was reported north of town along Highway 83. No impacts were reported.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindCliquot-Multiple large limbs were reported down.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Cliquot-An EF-0 rated tornado occurred east of Dunnegan. Multiple trees were damaged in the area with damage consistent with winds up to 80 mph. The tornado had a path length of just under two miles with a width of 100 to 200 yards.
May 2015FloodCliquot-High water was over the road and up to a door of a residence at Highway 83 and 390th Street.
September 2014Flash FloodCliquot-A low water crossing on Route 33 at Abels Branch was flooded for a short time.
February 2008Flash FloodCliquot-A low water crossing on Highway HH two miles north of Highway 64 experienced flash flooding and was impassable to motorists.
July 2015HailCliquot-no account filed
May 2008HailCliquot-no account filed
May 2008HailCliquot-no account filed
June 1996HailCliquot-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Rondo5.2 miles25
Dunnegan5.3 miles14
Bolivar6.5 miles17
Fair Play6.7 miles14
Huron6.8 miles19
Flemington7.7 miles16
Violet8.6 miles19
Humansville8.7 miles16

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 CliquotAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27989206The 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 716004. 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.