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Glennon, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63764. The Survey maps it on the Dongola quadrangle.

Glennon within Bollinger 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Glennon between 1996 and 2013, burning about 12 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
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
20 July 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 June 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 February 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 February 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glennon: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Menninger PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glennon in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2006Thunderstorm WindGlennon-Numerous large trees were downed and uprooted, including some thrown into a nearby creek.
May 2003HailGlennon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Drum1.3 miles18
Dongola2.6 miles18
Schlatitz3.9 miles18
Leopold4.8 miles19
Sank5.2 miles20
Clippard6.1 miles18
Laflin6.3 miles19
Greenbrier7.8 miles19

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 GlennonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16891720The 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 718516. 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.