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Eastwood, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Kelly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63965. The Survey maps it on the Van Buren South quadrangle.

Eastwood within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Eastwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 915 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179120-02039-09062019-1356
6 September 1998Debris and open burning9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestEASTWOOD
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named
24 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestSECESH
15 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMark Twain National ForestCOUNTY ROAD 212
6 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestTRAIL 9
5 May 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBLUE RIDGE
5 May 1993Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Eastwood: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Hahn BankIronProspect
UnknownIronPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastwood in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 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
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Eastwood$500,000An EF-1 tornado snapped and uprooted hundreds of trees as it moved northeast from just north of Eastwood to just west and north of Chilton to near Jackson and on to the Wayne County line southwest of Leeper. The roof structure was largely removed from two houses at the end of County Road 326. Another nearby house had some shingles removed, and a nearby barn sustained minor damage. A wooden power pole was snapped on Highway H near County Road 456. The estimated peak wind was 110 mph. The tornado continued northeast into Wayne County where it produced EF-3 damage in Leeper. The total path length was around 31 miles.
March 2017HailEastwood-Dime-size hail was reported from Eastwood to several miles west of Van Buren.
May 2017HailEastwood-The hail was slightly larger than golf balls. This same storm continued east, producing large hail near Ellsinore farther along its path.
October 1996HailEastwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Barren (historical)4.4 miles15
Chilton6.6 miles12
Chicopee6.7 miles13
South Van Buren6.8 miles13
Van Buren7.3 miles13
Fremont8.2 miles14
House Creek8.9 miles20
Hunter9.7 miles11

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 EastwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984316The 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 749789. 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.