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Cyclone, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64856. It stands on Grannys Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jane quadrangle.

Cyclone within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Cyclone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,015 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism16
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230722-06021-09232020-1715
22 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 August 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 June 1994Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178710-06021-05022019-2300
16 May 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cyclone in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindCyclone$60,000A home was destroyed from a large tree falling into the house.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCyclone$20,000A large tree was reported down on a home causing minor roof damage.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCyclone-A large tree was downed near the intersection of Highway K and Packet Hollow Road.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCyclone-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCyclone-Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over several trees along Highway K.
March 2008HailCyclone-no account filed
July 2008HailCyclone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
McCullough Ford0.8 miles13
Meadors Ford2.1 miles13
Plainview3.8 miles13
Powell4.0 miles14
Arnett4.3 miles14
Griffin Ford4.4 miles13
Wylie5.0 miles13
Bethpage5.1 miles14

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 CycloneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985955The 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 740789. 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.