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Crockerville, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Williams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65325. The Survey maps it on the Crockerville quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Crockerville within Benton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

93 words on this township

A Sketch of the History of Benton County, Missouri, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Williams Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Williams Township - 93 words.

Fires near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Crockerville between 1995 and 2018, burning about 218 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
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
3 September 2016Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation139873-07144-09032016-1552
1 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177948-07144-04192018-1300
10 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122362-07144-04102015-1549
9 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136534-07144-03042016-1214
30 March 1995Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton 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 Crockerville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crockerville in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
February 2023Thunderstorm WindCrockerville$50,000Numerous power outages were reported with power poles and lines down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCrockerville$25,000A few trees and powerlines were downed by high winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCrockerville$10,000Several large trees were reported down and significant damage occurred to a pole barn near Highway 52 and Highway W.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCrockerville$3,000Report of tree limbs broken and shingles blown off.
March 2026FloodCrockerville-Portions of State Highway 52 was closed due to flooding.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindCrockerville-A large tree was blown down and blocked a portion of the road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCrockerville-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts knocked a large tree across Highway 52.
June 2011HailCrockerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Crest1.7 miles17
Lake Creek5.0 miles18
Cole Camp5.3 miles17
Hilda6.8 miles21
Mora8.1 miles18
Cole Camp Junction9.2 miles17
Zora10.8 miles20
Windsor Junction10.9 miles19

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 CrockervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5187339The 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 740778. 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.