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Emden, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in North River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63439. It stands on Moreland Branch. The Survey maps it on the Emden quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Emden within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Emden between 2018 and 2020, burning about 15 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/undetermined4

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
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220625-06426-08162020-1610
23 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179003-06426-03232019-1415
15 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176749-10243-02152018-1145
17 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230889-06426-10172020-1405

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Emden: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
O'Laughlin Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
O'Lauglin Quarry - PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emden in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 5 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
April 2016Tornado (EF0)Emden-A weak tornado touched down south side of Emden and moved northeast destroying several outbuildings, uprooting large trees and damaging a church. The tornado continued northeast causing minor tree damage and structural damage to a property one mile northeast of town before dissipating. The tornado was rated EF-0 with a path length of 0.85 miles and a max path width of 75 yards.
September 2005HailEmden-A local radio station reported nickel size hail in Emden.
April 2023HailEmden-no account filed
June 2011HailEmden-no account filed
May 2009HailEmden-no account filed
April 2008HailEmden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Oakdale4.5 miles10
Burksville5.4 miles10
Kendall6.2 miles12
Sigsbee7.7 miles10
Hunnewell8.9 miles11
Shelbyville9.5 miles9
Lakenan9.8 miles12
Mamre10.1 miles9

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 EmdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471617The 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 735600. 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.