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Graff, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65660. It stands on Tom Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Graff within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Graff between 1993 and 2015, burning about 261 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
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
6 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1994Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graff in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 5 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
May 2024HailGraff$25,000Report of baseball size hail.
March 2024HailGraff-Golf ball size hail occurred at the intersection of Highway 38 and Highway 95.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGraff-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 95 and Highway 38.
February 2017HailGraff-no account filed
August 2008HailGraff-no account filed
March 2008HailGraff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Rail1.7 miles17
Green Mountain2.6 miles17
Rayborn4.1 miles17
Astoria4.3 miles17
Dawson4.4 miles17
Grimes Mill5.9 miles16
Maines6.1 miles17
Latham Mill6.1 miles16

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 GraffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5567236The 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 750096. 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.