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East Leavenworth, Missouri

46 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64079. It stands on Odie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Platte City quadrangle.

East Leavenworth within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 46 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

30 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of East Leavenworth between 2015 and 2018, burning about 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
19 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1265
8 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County975
28 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLeavenworth County1112
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service843
23 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service106
16 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service781
10 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service314
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service433

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of East Leavenworth: 30 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Farley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oberdick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pratt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Leavenworth in 1 storm report in 2024: 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 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Leavenworth-Social media report of downed tree limbs on 45 Highway Spur near Farley.

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Buxton1.2 miles46
Stillings1.9 miles49
Farley2.5 miles46
Beverly3.8 miles46
West Platte5.3 miles44
Tracy5.3 miles44
Platte City5.3 miles46
Hampton6.7 miles37

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740823. 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.