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Hammond, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Thornfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65762. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thornfield quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Hammond within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 13 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Hammond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,866 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use4.3 acresMark Twain National ForestHIGHWAY 160
9 April 2007Debris and open burning86 acresMark Twain National ForestBARREN
9 April 2001Debris and open burning130 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2013Arson/incendiarism8.6 acresMark Twain National ForestGOGAN
6 April 2013Arson/incendiarism6.2 acresMark Twain National ForestSECTION 19
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMark Twain National ForestBUZZARD
30 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestUPSLOPE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammond in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 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 2018LightningHammond$1,000Lightning knocked out power at Highway D and County Road 863.
July 2024Heavy RainHammond-The Mesonet station 9621D located 2 miles south-southeast of Thornfield measured a 12-hour rainfall total of 4.80 inches.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHammond-Several large limbs and trees were blown down.
May 2022HailHammond-Quarter sized hail was reported.
April 2019HailHammond-Nickle sized hail was reported by a trained Spotter.
February 2013FloodHammond-Local law enforcement conducted a water rescue at Haskins Ford Road off of County Road 863.
March 2008FloodHammond-This flooding is a continution of the flash flooding. Widespread flooding continued for several days after the rain ended.

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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
Thornfield2.4 miles13
Nottinghill3.7 miles13
Pondfork3.9 miles13
Dillia4.2 miles14
Longrun4.6 miles13
Summit City4.7 miles13
Foil5.6 miles14
Grabeel (historical)5.9 miles13

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 HammondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q386886The 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 750206. 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.