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Fountain Grove, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Parson Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64659. The Survey maps it on the Fountain Grove quadrangle.

Fountain Grove within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Grove between 1992 and 2017, burning about 78 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation121344-05836-03212015-1716
18 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation145277-05836-11012016-1548
5 January 2011Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn 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 Fountain Grove: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wurster QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Grove in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 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
June 1998HailFountain Grove-Nickel-size hail was reported a mile northeast of Fountain Grove near the Wildlife area.
June 2017HailFountain Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Linn 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
Meadville5.1 miles14
Forker6.9 miles11
Laclede9.4 miles11
Lowell9.9 miles14
Linneus13.4 miles11
Brookfield13.8 miles11
Eversonville13.9 miles14
Hecla15.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735618. 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.