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Howes Mill, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. The Survey maps it on the Stone Hill quadrangle.

Howes Mill within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Howes Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,392 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 62 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/incendiarism62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Debris and open burning37
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMark Twain National ForestLIGHTNING
2 August 2012Natural7.1 acresMark Twain National ForestBOYD
27 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestMAJORS HOLLOW
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMARCOOT CHARACOAL #2
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMARCOOT CHARCOAL #3
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestMARCOOT CHARCOAL #4
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMARCOOT CHARCOAL #5
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestMARCOOT CHARCOAL #6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Howes Mill: 13 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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
Barksdale DiggingsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Eddington BankIronPast Producer
Eddington MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Howe Mill BankIronOccurrenceLimonite
Howe Mill MineIronPast Producer
Hutchins Creek BankIronPast Producer
Hutchins Creek MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howes Mill in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 4 heavy rain, 2 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 2024HailHowes Mill$10,000Report of hail sizes 2 inches in diameter.
November 2024Heavy RainHowes Mill-CoCoRaHS station MO-DT-8 located 14.9 miles east of Salem measured a 2-day rainfall total of 8.28 inches.
October 2019Heavy RainHowes Mill-The CoCoRaHS station mo-dt-8 near Salem reported 2.58 inches of rainfall.
September 2018Heavy RainHowes Mill-COCORAHS Station MO-DT-8, reported a 24 rain total of 2.52 inches.
April 2013Heavy RainHowes Mill-Four inches of rain fell in five and a half hours.
April 2018HailHowes Mill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dent 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
Stone Hill2.9 miles19
Junction Lookout (historical)3.5 miles19
Ark5.0 miles19
Max5.7 miles18
Boss5.7 miles22
Mounce6.1 miles18
Turtle9.1 miles18
Dent Ford10.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 758436. 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.