Higdon, Missouri

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.

• 1910 USGS Higdon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Higdon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Higdon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Farmington quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
• 2000 USGS Higdon quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Higdon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 458 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Hahns Mill
• Castor Station
• Cornwall
• Mine La Motte

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Higdon: 14 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Cobalt, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Higdon in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 3 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Madison County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 750314. 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.