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Hart, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buffalo Hart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64865. The Survey maps it on the Tiff City quadrangle.

Hart within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Hart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,046 acres in total. 14 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/incendiarism38
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2

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
5 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use38 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 September 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use580 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30434
7 August 2011Arson/incendiarism200 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30427
6 August 2012Naturalunder an acreMiami AgencyLOST
30 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2003Natural70 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30582
19 August 2003Natural150 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryKELLY RANCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hart: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Bituminous, Iron, Iron. 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
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - Iron & CoalBituminous, IronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead & BariteBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer
Unknown - ZincZincPast Producer
Unknown - Zinc & LeadLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Zinc & LeadLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hart in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 2 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
October 2009Flash FloodHart-Highway 43 was closed south of State Highway B.
April 2008Flash FloodHart-Four to six inches of rain fell over McDonald County. Any areas that typically flood during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHart-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed numerous trees near the intersection of Highway 43 and Highway B.
May 2017HailHart-no account filed
March 2010HailHart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Enterprise (historical)4.5 miles15
May4.5 miles16
Tiff City4.8 miles15
Coy6.5 miles15
Splitlog8.0 miles13
Elliff9.6 miles13
Kelley Springs10.0 miles13
Anderson10.5 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 HartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16909168The 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 719168. 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.