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Dormis, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65637. It lies near Ruth Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cureall NW quadrangle.

Dormis within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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 Dormis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,604 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 August 1995Natural7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 July 2012Natural1,126 acresMark Twain National ForestPOTATO CAVE
9 April 2020Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservation241132-04633-04092020-2119

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Dormis: 9 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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
Sharp MineZincPast Producer1893
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Collins LandIronPast Producer
Everett Mahan ProspectIronPast Producer
J C Bond ProspectIronPast Producer
John SkilesIronProspect1953
South Missouri Land Co Number OneIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dormis in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 2 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 2019Thunderstorm WindDormis-A large tree was reported down near Highway H and County Road 337.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindDormis-There was a public report of wind gusts estimated up to 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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
Althea2.2 miles14
Sycamore2.7 miles12
Oak Mound3.5 miles14
Luna3.6 miles12
Cross Roads4.2 miles14
Dawt4.6 miles13
Dawt Mill4.7 miles13
Zanoni4.8 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122540771The 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 733821. 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.