BlockHedge City, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Bourbon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63460. It stands on Hickory Branch. The Survey maps it on the Novelty quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1903 USGS Edina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Novelty quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hedge City in 1997, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hedge City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hedge City in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hedge City | - | Damaging downburst winds totally destroyed a machine shed on Highway T, approximately 5 miles south southwest of Knox City. The debris field from the machine shed extended southeast in a narrow corridor 40 yards wide and one mile long. The narrow corridor of enhanced winds were estimated around 100 mph. Other tree damage was found half a mile north of the intersection of Highway T and County Road 296. A few large trees were uprooted while many large branches were blown down to the southeast. A little further to the east, about three quarters of a mile north of the intersection of Highway E with Highway T, a machine shed was damaged. There were indications that the machine shed flexed and shifted when the high winds hit and this flexing produced ripples in the sheet metal siding. Other damage was noted to the soffiting on the building and one large overhead door was blown to the northeast. On the same farmstead, the high winds caused a silo to be destroyed with the debris from the silo causing the collapse and destruction of two additional silos. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hedge City | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740920. 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.