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Hampton, Missouri

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Carroll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64153. It stands on Hayes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ferrelview quadrangle.

Hampton within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 37 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

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hampton in 2007, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 November 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 November 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 November 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 November 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Hampton: 29 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Babcock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hampton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oberdick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pratt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hampton in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHampton-Social media report of several large trees snapped west of KCI Airport from a microburst.
June 2015Flash FloodHampton-Hillsboro Road, south of Lanter Lane was closed because of running water.
October 2014HailHampton-Reported via social media.
April 2016HailHampton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Tiffany Springs2.4 miles37
Platte Gardens2.9 miles37
Tarrytown2.9 miles37
Weatherby Lake3.6 miles40
Ferrelview4.2 miles37
Linkville4.9 miles37
Waldron5.2 miles37
Farley5.2 miles46

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740901. 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.