BlockHimmel, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pike Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63735. It stands on Crooked Slough. The Survey maps it on the Clines Island quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1934 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1963 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Clines Island quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Himmel between 1996 and 2018, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177433-10393-04142018-1130 |
| 20 December 1996 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawan | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Durnell | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Shady Dell | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Toppertown | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bell City | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Heagy | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Clines Island | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Ardeola | 5.6 miles | 18 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122541599 | 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 740930. 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.