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Darien, 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 65560. The Survey maps it on the Darien quadrangle.

Darien 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Darien between 1992 and 2020, burning about 839 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism2
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
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
18 August 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1997Debris and open burning11 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Darien: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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
Slater MineIronPast Producer
Sligo BankIronOccurrence
Sligo BankIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Walker MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darien in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 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 2006HailDarien-no account filed

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
Jadwin2.6 miles22
Custer4.0 miles17
Jack4.2 miles17
Joy4.4 miles18
Rhyse6.0 miles18
Fawn6.4 miles18
Doss6.9 miles18
Gladden7.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 716666. 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.