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Hiram, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cowan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63944. It lies near McCarn Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lowndes quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Hiram within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Hiram between 1992 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
7 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation241081-11111-09272020-1355
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179092-11115-09112019-1700
11 September 1993Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177155-11111-06162018-1245
8 May 1992Arson/incendiarism10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178777-11115-05022018-1630
2 May 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Hiram: 15 past producers, 7 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
AllenIronPast Producer1920
Barker BankIronPast Producer
Higgins MineIronPast Producer1905, 1907
Higgins MineIronPast Producer
Lambert MineIronProspectSurface
Long and Colby BankIronProspectSurface
McKenzie Bank # 1IronProspect
McKenzie Bank # 2IronProspect
McKenzie Bank No. 1IronOccurrenceSurface

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hiram in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flood. 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
May 2011FloodHiram$30,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Clubb2.9 miles20
Lowndes3.4 miles20
Burbank3.7 miles20
Missionary Acres5.9 miles20
Burch6.5 miles19
Silva7.9 miles20
Greenville8.0 miles20
Bounds8.1 miles20

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 HiramAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5769009The 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 750341. 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.