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Fenwick, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Rose Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64040. It stands on Hornsby Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kingsville quadrangle.

Fenwick within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

8,644 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rose Hill Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rose Hill Township - 8,644 words.

Fires near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fenwick between 2003 and 2017, burning about 107 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135857-05161-04132016-1316
7 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120016-05161-03072015-1412
10 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation120273-05161-03102015-1447
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134493-05161-03012016-0505
7 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134097-05161-02072016-2013
11 February 2003Recreation and ceremony15 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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
Latour2.4 miles14
Rose Hill3.2 miles14
Medford5.3 miles14
Kingsville5.4 miles14
Holden6.8 miles18
Quick City7.3 miles13
Denton10.1 miles18
Magnolia10.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740849. 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.