Danby, Missouri

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.

• 1915 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Crystal City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1964 USGS Danby quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Festus quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Danby quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Danby between 1994 and 2020, burning about 540 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Arbor Place
• Selma
• Flucom
• Olympian Village
• Plattin
• Hematite

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Danby: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danby in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716653. 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.