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Huggins, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Morris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65484. The Survey maps it on the Huggins quadrangle. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

Huggins within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Huggins between 1993 and 2015, burning about 344 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation123530-10744-04072015-1702
17 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Huggins: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huggins in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
June 2007LightningHuggins5 hurtFive people were injured from a lightning strike near the community of Huggins.
June 2013LightningHuggins$5,000Lightning struck a house which caused damage to the kitchen.
April 1994HailHuggins$50no account filed
November 2015FloodHuggins-Route M was closed due to flooding just north of Huggins between Astoria Road and County Road Ewes Drive.
August 2013Flash FloodHuggins-Route M was closed to traffic due to flood waters.
August 2012HailHuggins-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHuggins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Bendavis1.6 miles14
Alice1.6 miles14
Fairview2.4 miles14
Pleasant Ridge3.4 miles14
Upton3.8 miles14
Dykes4.5 miles14
Bado5.3 miles14
Fowler6.1 miles14

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 HugginsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5929709The 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 740948. 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.