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Earnestville, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65590. The Survey maps it on the Long Lane quadrangle.

Earnestville within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Earnestville between 1993 and 2016, burning about 522 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
12 September 2000Arson/incendiarism24 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism42 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1995Debris and open burning95 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined259 acresMissouri Department of ConservationTURKEY BAIT FIRE
6 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134175-05327-03062016-1856
17 March 2016Arson/incendiarism25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134754-05300-03172016-1805
16 March 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Earnestville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Gabrielle DiggingsLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Earnestville in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 5 flash flood, 2 flood. 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
December 2015Flash FloodEarnestville$500,000There was six to nine inches of standing water the west bound lanes of Interstate 44 at mile marker 118. Several roads, low water crossings, and bridges suffered damage from flood water. This storm report will contain the damage estimates for the entire county for this event.
June 2024Flash FloodEarnestville$25,000Flooding caused a culvert to collapse on Walnut Grove Loop off of State Highway B.
July 2016Flash FloodEarnestville$10,000The low water crossing at Highway B near Almond Road was flooded and damaged. A portion of the pavement was washed away.
May 2022FloodEarnestville-Route B at the Dousinbury Creek low water crossing was closed due to flooding.
May 2022FloodEarnestville-Route B at the Jones Creek low water crossing was closed due to flooding.
January 2020Flash FloodEarnestville-State Highway B was closed due to flooding at Jones Creek.
August 2013Flash FloodEarnestville-Highway B was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Brittain1.7 miles14
Handley3.0 miles14
Shady Grove3.6 miles14
Long Lane3.6 miles14
Wall Street4.9 miles14
Gaunt Ford (historical)5.7 miles14
Limekiln Ford (historical)5.7 miles14
Hico (historical)6.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 717246. 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.