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Custer, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65501. The Survey maps it on the Darien quadrangle.

Custer within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires near this place

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Custer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 725 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
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
7 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 August 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 July 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2019Recreation and ceremony18 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178676-10164-04062019-1900

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Custer: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Jamison BankIronPast Producer
Jamison MineIronPast ProducerUnderground
Stephens - Woodside MineIronPast ProducerSurface/Underground
Stephens-Woodside MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Custer in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2024Thunderstorm WindCuster$1,000A tree was blown down on State Highway 19 near Highway N.
July 2023HailCuster-Penny sized hail was reported.
April 2017HailCuster-This report of hail was from social media.
September 2009Heavy RainCuster-A report of 4.20 inches of rain was received.

Every storm recorded in Dent 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
Fawn2.4 miles18
Doss3.3 miles18
Darien4.0 miles17
Gladden4.2 miles17
Jadwin4.4 miles22
Turtle5.8 miles18
Jack6.0 miles17
Salem7.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716611. 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.