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Fanning, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Knobview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65453. It lies near Grant Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cuba quadrangle.

Fanning within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Fanning between 1992 and 2020, burning about 392 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation144733-02811-09122016-1958
29 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation144732-02811-07292016-1151
23 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation144712-02811-06232016-2132
22 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation144711-02811-06222016-1339
28 May 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation129938-02811-05252015-1641
2 May 2001Debris and open burning23 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation144798-02811-04082016-2034

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Fanning: 42 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Rosati StoneFlagstoneProducer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Iron Ridge Mine # 1Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
Julian Pickles ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Pilz ProspectSulfur-PyritePast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fanning in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 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
March 2025HailFanning-no account filed
May 2018HailFanning-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Iron Center1.0 miles19
Fox Springs2.1 miles19
Thousand Oaks3.3 miles21
Amanda3.4 miles19
Indian Lake3.8 miles19
Cuba3.9 miles19
Scott Ford4.2 miles21
Idlewild4.2 miles19

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 FanningAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5433987The 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 717838. 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.