BlockBefore

Coal Hill, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Box Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64744. The Survey maps it on the Tiffin quadrangle.

Coal Hill within Cedar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Coal Hill between 1992 and 2011, burning about 1,089 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 burning5
Arson/incendiarism5

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
2 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism613 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 July 2011Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning26 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 March 1992Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 February 1998Arson/incendiarism25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 December 2008Arson/incendiarism250 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 November 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Coal Hill: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Capp's ShaftZincPast Producer
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coal Hill in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2025Heavy RainCoal Hill-Storm total rainfall amount of 2.16 inches from May 23 through May 27.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCoal Hill-The Mesonet Station (RAWS), WKTM7 at Wah Kon Tah State Prairie measured a 50 knot wind gust.
April 2012HailCoal Hill-no account filed

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
Lebeck1.3 miles19
Cedar Springs2.1 miles17
Hackleman Corner3.6 miles18
El Dorado Springs4.7 miles19
Willowville4.8 miles17
Fairview (historical)5.7 miles18
Ivy8.2 miles18
Filley8.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740753. 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.