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Dameron, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hurricane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63343. It stands on Dry Fork. The Survey maps it on the Elsberry quadrangle.

Dameron within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

450 words on this township

History of Lincoln County, Missouri, from the Earliest Time to the Present, published 1888 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hurricane Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hurricane Township - 450 words.

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Dameron between 1996 and 2015, burning about 178 acres in total. 1 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
9 April 2003Debris and open burning6.0 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeLEVEE (GUYTON)
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122150-02379-04132015-1100
7 March 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeNATURE TRAIL WILDFIRE
12 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeSWLVE
10 March 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeBYANTS CREEK
1 November 2000Natural40 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeABC
6 October 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dameron: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Columbia QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dameron in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 4 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
June 2008FloodDameron$1,600,000Lincoln County was the area most affected by the Mississippi River flood of 2008. At Winfield, the river crested at 37.08 feet on 6/27/2008. This is the second highest crest ever recorded. All of the land east of Highway 79 was flooded. At the height of the flood, Highway 79 also went underwater near Old Monroe, Winfield, Foley, and Elsberry. Almost all of Foley went underwater. The southeast part of Winfield, about 100 homes, flooded when the Pin Oak levee failed. In Old Monroe, the waste water treatment plant was flooded by water from the Cuivre River, which was back water from the flooded Mississippi. According to damage assessments made by local emergency management officials, 814 homes were affected. 742 were destroyed, 36 suffered major damage, and 36 were affected. Damage to public infrastructure was estimated at $1,600,000.
April 2013FloodDameron$50,000The Mississippi River rose to major flood levels along the border with Lincoln County. The river crested on 23rd, but remained above flood stage into May. The only major damage occurred in Winfield. A levee failure resulted in the flooding of about 20 homes on the east side of Highway 79 in the Winfield Acres area.
June 2013FloodDameron$3,000The Mississippi River started June in flood and hit major flood levels cresting on the 2nd. The river fell the rest of the month but remained in flood into July. Damage was limited to some flooded roads and flooded farmland.
June 2010FloodDameron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Elsberry3.7 miles12
Old Westport Landing4.6 miles15
New Hope6.6 miles12
Apex7.8 miles12
Sterling Landing9.2 miles15
Oasis9.8 miles15
Kings Lake10.8 miles15
Okete10.8 miles13

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 DameronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985733The 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 740792. 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.