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Frumet, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Big River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63020. It stands on Greys Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fletcher quadrangle.

Frumet within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Frumet between 1992 and 2018, burning about 459 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism2
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
1 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation123650-05007-05022015-1615
7 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 April 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176724-05007-04292018-1001
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation135192-05007-04022016-1120
9 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation119800-05007-03092015-1055
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Frumet: 33 past producers, 8 producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
Ditch MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Gray's DiggingsZinc, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Mammoth MineBarium-Barite, Clay, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Barite & LeadLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Darby DiggingsBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Ditch Lead MinesBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Quinn MineBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Shady DiggingsBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - Lead + BariteBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frumet in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
February 2017HailFrumet-A wide swath of large hail, up to golfball size, fell across portions of Jefferson County from Fletcher north northeast to just north of Hillsboro and just south of Arnold.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Fletcher2.2 miles18
Mount Freedom3.4 miles18
Ware4.1 miles18
Cottage Farm5.7 miles18
Briarwood Estates5.8 miles20
Vineland6.1 miles21
De Soto7.4 miles20
Raintree Plantation8.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 718270. 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.