Hurricane, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Crooked Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63764. It stands on Alex Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1933 USGS Marquand quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Marquand quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 2000 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane between 1999 and 2019, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 June 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179388-02359-06212019-2240 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hurricane: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gale Slinkard Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Robbins Bank | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurricane in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hurricane | $4,000 | South of Patton on Highway 51, a carport was pulled from the ground and thrown into a tree. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Hurricane | - | Hail estimated at up to one inch diameter was reported south of Patton. |
| April 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Hurricane | - | Damage was mainly to trees, with thousands of large trees snapped or uprooted. Near the beginning of the path, along Highway M, south of Patton, a tractor trailer was overturned. A smaller trailer and several farm items were blown around, such as a fuel tank and planks. Extensive tree damage began by the time the tornado reached County Road 346, with thousands of trees downed between County Road 346 and Missouri JJ Highway. A small shed was blown away just south of JJ Highway, where the tornado reached its maximum intensity and width. A mobile home lost some of its shingles and most of its underpinning as the tornado moved along and just north of JJ Highway. The tornado ended just northeast of the intersection of JJ Highway and County Road 366, where it downed several mainly small trees and removed some shingles from a garage. |
| December 2009 | Flood | Hurricane | - | A few state roads were closed due to flooding, including sections of Routes EE, H, and PP. |
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.
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 Hurricane | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16892562 | The 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 750425. 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.













