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Hortense, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Leesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64735. It stands on Sparrow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leesville quadrangle.

Hortense within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Hortense between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,385 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 36 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
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 September 2020Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230787-04200-09252020-1630
10 August 2011Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 July 2018Fireworks17 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177369-04209-07092018-1829
7 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresMissouri Department of ConservationSPARROWFOOT CREEK
5 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use18 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177368-04209-07052018-1336
26 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251190-04209-07172020-0315

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hortense: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hortense in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013HailHortense-no account filed
May 2011Funnel CloudHortense-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Coal2.7 miles18
Leesville2.9 miles18
Roseland3.6 miles17
Alberta3.9 miles18
Tightwad4.5 miles18
Yolo5.7 miles17
Gaines6.2 miles18
Sparrow6.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740265. 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.