Elijah, Missouri

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.

• 1944 USGS Cureall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1946 USGS Cureall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
• 1968 USGS Bakersfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Ava quadrangle1:100000
• 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Elijah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Althea
• Sharp
• Dormis
• Bakersfield
• Cross Roads
• Dawt

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Elijah: 16 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elijah in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Ozark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 717443. 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.