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Coffman, 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 lies near Cheesebrough Hill. The Survey maps it on the Coffman quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Coffman 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

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Coffman in 2018, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177362-09435-06082018-1337
12 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176800-09435-04122018-2032
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 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Coffman: 14 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar. 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
Frank Scott DiggingsGold, IronPast Producer
Unknown - Iron-Pb-Ni-Cu-CoCopper, Iron, Lead, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-Zinc-Copper-IronCopper, Iron, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Stone Misc DimStone, DimensionPast Producer
Vogts ProspectCopper, Lead, Nickel, ZincProspect
Niedringhaus DepositFeldsparPast Producer
Pratte DiggingsFeldsparPast Producer
Smith ProspectIronProspect
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coffman in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCoffman$5,000A large portion of a metal barn roof was removed near Coffman.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCoffman-The County Sheriff reported trees down on Route AA.
April 2006HailCoffman-no account filed
July 2006HailCoffman-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCoffman-no account filed

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
Avon2.8 miles19
Clearwater3.2 miles19
Pickel5.0 miles18
Millers6.6 miles18
Jonca6.6 miles18
Womack7.1 miles21
Weingarten7.2 miles18
River aux Vases7.4 miles19

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 CoffmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q370813The 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 716070. 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.