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Daytown, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Randolph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63653. It stands on Eaton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Flat River quadrangle.

Daytown within St. Francois County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Daytown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism3
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 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261411-09432-09092020-1925
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261410-09432-09092020-2144
4 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178502-09401-04052019-1131
27 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1993Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2020Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation261409-09432-04102020-1611

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Daytown: 79 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Zinc, Lead. 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
Bonne TerreLead, Copper, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer1821
Bonne Terre MillDolomiteProducer
Bonne Terre MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1864, 1868
Bonne Terre Quarry and MillMagnesiteProducer
Flat River Sub-DistrictLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1742
Leadwood PlantStoneProducer
Unknown - Clay KaolinKaolinPast Producer
Unknown - Lead - ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Desloge MinesLead, CopperProducer1801

Every working recorded in St. Francois County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daytown in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindDaytown-Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. The tree fell onto a home in Leadwood.
May 2024HailDaytown-Reports of 1 to 1.75 inch hail occurred between Leadwood and Desloge and south to Farmington. Additional cities include Park Hills and Leadington.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDaytown-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Leadwood and Bonne Terre. One tree landed on a garage in Bonne Terre causing it to collapse.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindDaytown-Thunderstorm winds blew down a 10 inch maple tree in Leadwood.

Every storm recorded in St. Francois 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
Huntington0.6 miles21
Leadwood0.8 miles21
Mitchell0.9 miles21
Gumbo1.0 miles21
Wortham1.8 miles21
Frankclay1.8 miles21
Fairview Acres2.5 miles21
Davis2.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 755977. 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.