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Huiskamp, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63461. The Survey maps it on the Quincy SW quadrangle.

Huiskamp within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Huiskamp between 1994 and 2020, burning about 290 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 July 2019Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179032-06438-07102019-2250
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177504-06438-04302018-2136
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177501-06438-04272018-1335
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177477-06438-04122018-1740
10 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178767-06438-04102019-1045
4 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190481-06438-03042020-2235
3 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190480-06438-03032020-0640
16 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177440-06438-03162018-0708

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Huiskamp: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Quarry-3 Calcium Carbonate Co.Limestone, DimensionProducer
Adams Quarry Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Calcium Carbonate MillsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marblehead QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Martin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Menke QuaryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stewart Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huiskamp in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2019Thunderstorm WindHuiskamp-Thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto Highway 168 east northeast of Palmyra.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHuiskamp-A small shed was flattened on its foundation at the intersection of Highway 168 and Highway JJ.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
South River1.2 miles18
Marion City (historical)1.6 miles18
Helton3.0 miles18
North River3.2 miles18
Dodge City4.3 miles13
Palmyra4.6 miles13
Mungers4.6 miles18
Dunsford4.7 miles18

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 Q122594355The 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 740949. 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.