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Estill, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65274. The Survey maps it on the New Franklin quadrangle.

Estill within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Estill between 1993 and 2017, burning about 61 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/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
21 May 1993Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Estill: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Cox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hall + Riley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Klusmeyer MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estill in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindEstill-Power Pole downed in rural Howard County.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEstill-Multiple trees and branches of unknown size and condition were down near Highway 87.
May 2014HailEstill-The hail was 2 inches deep with fog near Boonesboro.
April 2015HailEstill-no account filed
May 2005HailEstill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
New Franklin2.2 miles15
Franklin2.6 miles17
Boonesboro5.5 miles17
Fayette7.5 miles16
Petersburg7.9 miles17
Lisbon9.5 miles17
Hilldale9.8 miles15
Sebree12.5 miles16

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 EstillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16891184The 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 740838. 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.