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Evansville, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65270. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Middle Grove quadrangle.

Evansville within Monroe 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

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Evansville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 501 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
26 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use35 acresMissouri Department of Conservation210552-08854-07042020-1440
21 July 2007Recreation and ceremony15 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190448-06902-04042020-1315
23 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 April 2018Debris and open burning2.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178101-08853-04212018-1805
21 April 2007Natural10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Evansville: 1 past producer. 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
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evansville in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 2 hail. 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 2016HailEvansville-no account filed
June 2015HailEvansville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Middle Grove4.1 miles15
Ash4.6 miles10
Madison5.2 miles15
Duncans Bridge8.9 miles10
Holliday9.7 miles15
Woodlawn10.1 miles8
Tulip10.7 miles16
Fowkes12.4 miles18

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 EvansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27986048The 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 717675. 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.