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Cooper Hill, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65014. It stands on Third Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cooper Hill quadrangle.

Cooper Hill within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cooper Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 67 acres 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
21 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 May 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation200556-03734-03062020-1425
6 March 1994Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 March 1994Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Cooper Hill: 19 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Osage County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Heck - Leesee Mine - Lot 2IronPast Producer
Unknown - FeIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

3 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooper Hill in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 flash 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
April 2026HailCooper Hill-A HAM radio operator reported quarter sized hail at Cooper Hill.
August 2023Flash FloodCooper Hill-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Highway U just of Linn and County Road 731 near Cooper Hill.
May 2024HailCooper Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Feuersville (historical)2.4 miles16
Freedom2.9 miles16
Ryors4.3 miles16
Lake Ford (historical)4.3 miles16
Judge6.3 miles17
Byron6.9 miles16
Hope7.0 miles21
Potts7.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716281. 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.