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Fanchon, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sisson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65788. It lies near Chalk Hole Valley. The Survey maps it on the Peace Valley quadrangle.

Fanchon within Howell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Fanchon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 September 2001Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2000Natural5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 August 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177174-07523-06122018-1740
11 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177173-07523-06112018-1630

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Fanchon: 16 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Bert Weeks LandIronPast Producer1900, 1906
Elmer Barton MineIronPast Producer1910
Francis Pettijohn ProspectIronProspect
Ruby Cunningham PropertyIronProspect1910
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howell County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fanchon in 3 storm reports in 2011: 3 flash flood. 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 2011Flash FloodFanchon-Highway 160 was closed due to flooding.
April 2011Flash FloodFanchon-Highway EE was closed due to flooding.
April 2011Flash FloodFanchon-Route W was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Howell 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
Cull4.8 miles13
Peace Valley5.7 miles12
White Church5.9 miles12
Pocohontas Crossing7.6 miles13
Carson (historical)8.0 miles17
Chapin8.1 miles17
Frankville8.8 miles17
West Plains9.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740845. 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.