BlockHandy, Missouri
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Pine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63941. It lies near Davis Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Handy quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Handy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Handy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
58 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Handy between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,738 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 38 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | CAVE FORK |
| 30 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | not named |
| 3 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | PRONG CREEK 2 |
| 3 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.4 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | PRONG CREEK 1 |
| 13 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | RANGE |
| 12 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.5 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | IRISH |
| 10 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | CAVE FORK |
| 10 July 1992 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Handy in 1 storm report in 2006: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | Hail | Handy | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Handy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28018066 | The 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 750212. 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.