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Galesburg, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64855. It stands on North Fork Spring River. The Survey maps it on the Asbury quadrangle.

Galesburg within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Galesburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230707-04955-09202020-1920
5 July 2020Fireworks24 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230721-04902-07052020-1125
8 June 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177914-04902-06082018-2240
7 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation200517-02439-06072019-2330
14 June 2020Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230720-04902-06142020-1910
5 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230719-04902-05052020-1800
17 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177913-04902-05172018-1641
12 May 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Galesburg: 54 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, 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
Nelson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gibson Lease N.E. JoplinZincPast Producer1898, 1900
Quick Seven MineZincPast Producer1870, 1920
Robinson Lease N.E. JoplinZincPast Producer1898, 1900
Virginia MineZincPast Producer1911, 1912
Weaver LeaseZincPast Producer1913
Anna Linda MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Big 4 MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Big ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer
Bull Dog MineLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galesburg in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2007Flash FloodGalesburg-Excessive rainfall cause flash flooding across northern Jasper County. County Road 300 between Oak Road and Baseline Road became impassable to motorists.
December 2015HailGalesburg-no account filed
July 1997HailGalesburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Medoc2.7 miles22
Neck City3.9 miles17
Tuckers Corner4.5 miles17
Purcell4.7 miles17
Waco4.7 miles18
Asbury4.8 miles22
Cossville5.3 miles17
Alba5.6 miles17

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 GalesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985429The 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 718315. 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.