BlockEgypt Mills, Missouri
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Randol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63701. The Survey maps it on the Ware quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1920 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1923 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Ware quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Ware quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Ware quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Egypt Mills between 2007 and 2017, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 18 February 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.7 acres | Shawnee National Forest | WARE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Egypt Mills: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Silica | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egypt Mills in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egypt Mills | $20,000 | A piece of siding was off a house. Large tree limbs were blown down. One power pole was broken, and a tree was down. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Egypt Mills | $10,000 | A midday supercell produced a brief EF-0 tornado northeast of Cape Girardeau. A mobile home suffered some minor underpinning damage. Several large tree branches were broken. A resident's outdoor camera captured the small tornado on video. Estimated max winds with this tornado were 65 mph. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egypt Mills | - | A large amount of corn was blown over due to strong winds near intersection of CR 638 and CR 618. |
| May 2024 | Flood | Egypt Mills | - | Minor flooding through much of May resulted in the Mississippi River backing into several creeks. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Egypt Mills | - | Minor flooding began near Cape Girardeau in early July and continued through the third week of July with impacts mainly limited to low-lying agricultural areas. The river crested just below moderate flood stage on July 11th. |
| March 2020 | Flood | Egypt Mills | - | Moderate flooding occurred on the Mississippi River. At the Cape Girardeau river gage, the river crested at 37.31 feet on the 26th. Flood stage is 32 feet. Some low-lying farmland near the river was inundated. The flood gate on Themis Street in Cape Girardeau was closed. The Mississippi River backed into several creeks, producing flooding well away from the river.The flooding continued into April. |
| July 2008 | Flood | Egypt Mills | - | At the Cape Girardeau river gage, the Mississippi River rose just above flood stage. Minor flooding of low-lying fields occurred. The river continued to rise after month's end, cresting in August. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Egypt Mills | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Egypt Mills | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bainbridge | 1.5 miles | 25 | |
| Moccasin Springs | 3.2 miles | 25 | |
| Oriole | 4.6 miles | 20 | |
| Neelys Landing | 7.0 miles | 26 | |
| Cape Girardeau | 7.4 miles | 21 | |
| Leemon | 7.8 miles | 20 | |
| Decatur | 8.2 miles | 21 | |
| Lovejoy | 9.5 miles | 26 |
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 Egypt Mills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q15216189 | The 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 717419. 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.