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Dixie, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Caldwell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65063. It stands on Caldwell Branch. The Survey maps it on the New Bloomfield quadrangle.

Dixie within Callaway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dixie between 1999 and 2002, burning about 43 acres in total. None 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 burning8
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 1999Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 March 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 March 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 February 2002Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Callaway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Dixie: 32 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Dunn BankCoal, IronPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett BankIronPast Producer
Bloomfield BankIronPast Producer
Murphy's Hill MineIronPast Producer
Old DiggingsIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Callaway County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixie in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindDixie$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees across the southern portions of Callaway County. Several trees were blown down onto U.S. Highway 54 near Guthrie. Also, several trees were blown down onto Highway 94 near intersection with Highway AA and near Portland.
April 2023HailDixie-no account filed
May 2018HailDixie-no account filed
April 2011HailDixie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Callaway 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
Browns Ford2.8 miles20
Pitcher3.2 miles22
Liberty3.4 miles20
New Bloomfield4.3 miles22
Ellerslie (historical)4.5 miles22
Howards Bluff (historical)5.2 miles22
Hord (historical)5.2 miles20
Guthrie5.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749666. 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.