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Connelsville, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Nineveh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63559. It stands on Hazel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Connelsville quadrangle.

Connelsville within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Connelsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 192 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
Debris and open burning2
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
8 April 1992Arson/incendiarism70 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Debris and open burning120 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 March 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179290-00000-03262019-1420

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Connelsville: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chariton River Sand PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Connelsville in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 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
July 2015Flash FloodConnelsville-Highway 149 in the Connelsville area was barricaded due to high water.
July 2010Flash FloodConnelsville-State Highway 149 was closed due to flooding.
May 2009Flash FloodConnelsville-Highway 149 was closed due to flooding near Connelsville.
July 2008Flash FloodConnelsville-Highway 149 in Connelsville was closed due to high water.
June 2008FloodConnelsville-Eight to ten inches of water was reported over Highway 149 near Connelsville, due to the heavy rains. Major flooding was observed on|the Chariton River.
July 2008Flash FloodConnelsville-Highway 149 near Connelsville was closed due to high water.
April 2001HailConnelsville-Law enforcement reported one inch hail and tree limbs larger than 6 inches in diameter down.
September 2005HailConnelsville-no account filed
May 2004HailConnelsville-no account filed
April 1999HailConnelsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Nineveh0.4 miles10
Green Grove2.7 miles10
Fegley2.8 miles10
Danforth3.1 miles11
Novinger3.2 miles11
Shibleys Point4.1 miles11
Stahl4.8 miles11
Tipperary5.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716198. 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.