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Glenn, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Thomas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63953. It stands on Logan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oxly quadrangle.

Glenn within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Glenn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
8 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178442-09143-04032019-2015
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178441-09143-04032019-1830
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178439-09143-04032019-1155
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178440-09143-04032019-1550
21 April 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1997Arson/incendiarism34 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenn in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 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
May 2025HailGlenn-Hail estimated to quarter size and wind gusts estimated to 55mph occurred on Hwy W south of Naylor near the MO-AR state line.
January 2020Flash FloodGlenn-Several roads were closed across the county, including portions of Route H and Route 142 in the southeast part of the county and Routes NN and K in the northeast part of the county. A cocorahs observer several miles north-northeast of Bennett measured 3.97 inches in 24 hours.
December 2009Flash FloodGlenn-Harris Creek overflowed its banks onto Highway 142 at Oxly. Water was over Highway A several miles southwest of Doniphan.

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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
Torch0.6 miles11
Sinsabaugh2.0 miles11
Hemenway2.1 miles11
Riga (historical)2.3 miles11
Purman3.4 miles11
Martinsburg (historical)4.0 miles11
Oxly4.5 miles11
Naylor5.3 miles11

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 GlennAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28018065The 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 740874. 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.

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.