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Cook Station, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65449. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cook Station quadrangle.

Cook Station within Crawford 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Cook Station between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,736 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 1999Debris and open burning75 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Arson/incendiarism130 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresMissouri Department of ConservationZISKE
2 April 1997Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Cook Station: 57 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Arthur MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Yeary ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Arthur MinesLeadPast Producer1863
Jonas MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Metcalf DiggingsLeadPast Producer
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - CopperCopperProspect
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cook Station in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994HailCook Station$5,000Golf ball-size hail damaged cars in the Cook Station area.
September 1993Tornado (F0)Cook Station$5,000A home sustained damage after a tornado briefly touched down. Many trees in the area were also knocked down or snapped off.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCook Station-Thunderstorm winds snapped off a tree in town.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindCook Station-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees near Highway M about one and a half miles north northeast of Cook Station.
April 2010Tornado (EF1)Cook Station-A tornado touched down about 4 miles west of Cook Station and paralled/crossed Highway YY several times before lifting and dissipating about 3 miles west northwest of Cook Station. Damage was observed at the Carr Cemetery and the High Adventure Game Ranch. Damage consisted of snapped and uprooted trees and downed branches. The worst damage was at the Carr Cemetery where a number of large healthy oak trees were snapped just above the base.
February 2017HailCook Station-no account filed
March 2006HailCook Station-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Goltra1.2 miles19
Wesco3.2 miles19
Limberlost4.2 miles19
Keysville5.0 miles21
Klein Ford5.5 miles21
Cedar Ford6.1 miles21
Lead Branch Junction7.1 miles21
Cherryville9.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716227. 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.