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Corso, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nineveh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63377. The Survey maps it on the Louisville quadrangle.

Corso within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Corso between 1993 and 1994, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined1
Natural1

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
31 August 1993Natural10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 December 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Corso: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Northern Fire Clay DistrictFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corso in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 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 2024HailCorso-Hailstones between 1 and 1.75 inches were reported in Silex, Auburn, and New Hope.
May 2020Flash FloodCorso-Up to 3 inches of rain fell in about an hour and a half causing flash flooding. Several secondary roads near Olney were flooded.
December 2010HailCorso-Hail up to one inch in diameter fell in a swath over northwestern Lincoln county. In some spots the hail was covering the ground.
May 2011HailCorso-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Olney4.3 miles16
Millwood4.6 miles16
Louisville5.0 miles15
Hopkinsville5.3 miles16
Stillhouse Ford5.4 miles16
Fairview6.3 miles16
Silex7.0 miles16
Hobart7.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716332. 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.