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Courtney, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Blue Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64058. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle.

Courtney within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

In the county-history sources

6,365 words on this township

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Blue Township covers organized may 23, 1827, at first it included land in what is cass and bates counties, present boundaries and phyiscal features, blue township a favored locality, names of the pioneers, what the pioneers themselves say of early days.

Read the chapter on Blue Township - 6,365 words.

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Courtney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177819-02412-08122018-1657
8 April 2020Debris and open burning4.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190395-04828-04082020-1735
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190428-04828-04112020-2045
7 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176031-04834-03072018-1713
5 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176030-04834-03052018-1638

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Courtney: 29 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. 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
Liberty Bend Pit & PlantSilicaProducer
Santa Fe QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sugar Creek Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer
City Wide SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Alrok Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Alrok QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Courtney in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 2 hail, 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtney-Downed trees and wires near Atherton Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCourtney-Thunderstorm winds gusted up to 60 mph, near the intersection of Highway's 210 and 291.
September 2010HailCourtney-no account filed
June 2001HailCourtney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Cement City1.4 miles24
River Bend1.6 miles24
Eton2.7 miles24
Cobbler3.5 miles24
Sugar Creek4.2 miles26
Ripley4.4 miles24
Independence4.6 miles26
East Independence4.6 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716389. 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.