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Duke, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Spring Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65461. It lies near Cap Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Big Piney quadrangle. It stands 1,119 feet above sea level.

Duke within Phelps County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Duke between 1992 and 2019, burning about 867 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPOCKET EDDIE
4 July 2012Fireworks1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBLACK CAT
8 April 2009Arson/incendiarism29 acresMark Twain National ForestRED
8 April 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestLIGHT
3 April 1996Arson/incendiarism42 acresMark Twain National ForestROUND BALE
25 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresMark Twain National ForestLONNIE
25 April 1992Arson/incendiarism22 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named
23 April 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestDUKE 423

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Phelps County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Duke: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ta 256 Pit + PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Phelps County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duke in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2022Tornado (EF1)Duke$40,000A National Weather Service storm survey determined that an EF-1 with peak winds of 90 mph and a width of 200 yards snapped and uprooted numerous trees and damaged several small outbuildings. The tornado was on the ground for five minutes and tracked for 3 miles.
April 2005HailDuke-no account filed
April 1996HailDuke-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Phelps 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
Blooming Rose3.8 miles20
Beulah5.6 miles20
Spring Creek7.1 miles22
Flat7.3 miles19
Edgar Springs8.2 miles19
Craddock8.8 miles19
Yancy Mills13.0 miles26
Clementine14.9 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on DukeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5312722The 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 749745. 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.