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Craddock, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65462. It stands on Sample Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edgar Springs quadrangle.

Craddock within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Craddock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,166 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
15 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 June 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190475-03322-04082020-2050
5 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1994Arson/incendiarism34 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135519-03322-04032016-1918

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Craddock: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Childress MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craddock in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2026FloodCraddock-State Highway H was closed due to flooding near Black Oak Creek.
March 2023FloodCraddock-Route H at the Little Piney Creek was closed due to flooding from heavy rainfall.
April 2019Tornado (EF0)Craddock-A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado tracked from five miles south of Edgar Springs to five miles northeast of Edgar Springs in southern Phelps County. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted along the track the tornado took through mainly forested, rural areas. No additional damage other than tree damage was noted. The maximum wind speeds estimated along the track were 85 mph.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCraddock-Several large trees were reported snapped or uprooted by high winds.
December 2015Flash FloodCraddock-Route H was closed near the Little Piney Creek.
March 2008HailCraddock-no account filed
March 2008HailCraddock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phelps 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
Beulah3.9 miles20
Edgar Springs4.6 miles19
Blooming Rose7.0 miles20
Flat8.5 miles19
Duke8.8 miles23
Yancy Mills10.5 miles26
Spring Creek12.7 miles22
Vida15.2 miles26

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CraddockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986272The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749507. 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.