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Hartshorn, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Current Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65479. The Survey maps it on the Hartshorn quadrangle. It stands 1,309 feet above sea level.

Hartshorn within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Hartshorn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,609 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2

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
10 September 2001Natural2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 August 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 2019Debris and open burning8.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179448-10163-08122019-1835
6 July 2012Naturalunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverBYRANT
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177258-10163-07152018-1456
14 July 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177257-10163-07142018-1101
25 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178955-10163-06252019-1620
8 May 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hartshorn: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Lambert MineIronOccurrenceLimonite
McKenzie Bank No. 2IronOccurrenceLimonite
Speer's MountainIronOccurrenceLimonite
Wayne Iron and Lumber Company, Land No. 1.IronOccurrenceLimonite

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartshorn in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 2006HailHartshorn1 hurtAn 80 year old man sustained minor injuries from being caught outside as golf ball sized hail occurred.
March 2026Tornado (EF0)Hartshorn$10,000An EF-0 tornado briefly touched down approximately 4 miles north of Hartshorn in Texas County. Numerous large trees were uprooted, and a few smaller trees were snapped.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindHartshorn$10,000Damage was reported to several barns and outbuildings. Several trees and power lines were reported blown down.
August 2017HailHartshorn-no account filed
November 2003HailHartshorn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Midvale4.9 miles17
Eunice5.9 miles17
Summersville5.9 miles17
Nile6.6 miles20
Big Creek9.4 miles17
Yukon9.4 miles18
Ashley Creek9.6 miles21
Raymondville10.1 miles18

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 HartshornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5675295The 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 719184. 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.