Crawford, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Vest Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63555. The Survey maps it on the Downing quadrangle.

Crawford within Scotland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1903 USGS Edina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Downing quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Crawford between 1992 and 2002, burning about 260 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 burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 April 2002	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 March 1992	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 March 2002	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotland County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2003	Hail	Crawford	$100,000	no account filed
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Crawford	-	Local law enforcement reported a barn on the west side of State Highway B was destroyed.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Crawford	-	Several rounds of heavy rains with rainfall totals between 1 and 6 inches fell across Scotland County during the late evening of June 2 through midday on June 3. Several roads were flooded as well as small creeks and streams. Locations most affected by the flood waters were: Knott Street, Main Street, and several other streets near Johnson Park in Memphis, MO, secondary roads in the vicinity of Arbela, MO, and gravel roads in the Rutledge, MO area.
May 2023	Hail	Crawford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scotland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Middle Fabius	2.7 miles	9
Kilwinning	4.9 miles	7
Memphis	5.6 miles	10
Unity	5.9 miles	9
Energy	6.1 miles	9
Hitt	6.2 miles	7
Pleasant Retreat	8.0 miles	9
Brock	8.4 miles	7

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 Crawford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28054317	The 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 740773. 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.

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.