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Flat River, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1989. It stands in St. Francois Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63601. It stands on Shaw Branch. The Survey maps it on the Flat River quadrangle.

Flat River within St. Francois County

On record in Flat River

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 21 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Flat River between 1992 and 2016, burning about 138 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
27 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 April 1993Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1992Natural3.0 acresMark Twain National Forestnot named
22 March 1994Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 1994Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 March 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation138114-09401-03162016-1348
10 March 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Francois County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 81 workings within 5 miles of Flat River: 74 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Copper, Zinc. 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
Bonne Terre MillDolomiteProducer
Bonne Terre Quarry and MillMagnesiteProducer
Flat River Sub-DistrictLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1742
Leadwood PlantStoneProducer
Unknown - Clay KaolinKaolinPast Producer
Flat RiverLead, Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, Cobalt, NickelPast Producer1890
Hazel Run MinesLead, ZincPast Producer
Leadwood MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, Cobalt, NickelProducer1898, 1903
Unknown - Lead - ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Central Lead Co. ShaftZinc, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Francois County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flat River in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2024Thunderstorm WindFlat River-Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees in Desloge and Park Hills. Some of the trees were two feet in diameter.
October 1993HailFlat River-The county sheriff reported dime-size hail at 1540 CST and golf ball-size hail between Farmington and Flat River a few minutes later.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindFlat River-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindFlat River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Francois 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
Park Hills0.3 miles21
Saint Francois0.5 miles21
East Flat River0.7 miles21
Rivermines0.8 miles21
Federal0.8 miles21
Esther1.0 miles19
Fairview Acres1.1 miles21
Elvins1.3 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q49350187The 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 756058. 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.