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Faith, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Richwoods Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65486. It lies near Pemberton Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Brumley quadrangle.

Faith within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Faith between 1992 and 2020, burning about 685 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller 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 Faith: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Henry Carroll MineClayPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Armstedt BankIronPast Producer
Lambert Iron BankIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown-FeIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faith in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 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
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Faith$50,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado impacted sections of rural Miller County. The tornado damaged several trees along with some farm trailers and fences. Estimated wind gusts from the tornado were 100 mph.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindFaith-A large tree was reported down blocking the road on Missouri Highway 17 and K Highway.
May 2017HailFaith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Keethtown1.6 miles19
Samtown1.9 miles19
Watkins4.9 miles19
Brumley5.2 miles19
Iberia6.1 miles19
Ulman7.2 miles19
Brays9.3 miles20
Saint Anthony9.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740844. 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.