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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.

Hurricane within Bollinger 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

6 since 1999

Regional 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 burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 June 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179388-02359-06212019-2240

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gale Slinkard MineIronPast Producer
Robbins BankIronPast Producer
UnknownIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHurricane$4,000South of Patton on Highway 51, a carport was pulled from the ground and thrown into a tree.
May 2025HailHurricane-Hail estimated at up to one inch diameter was reported south of Patton.
April 2021Tornado (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 2009FloodHurricane-A few state roads were closed due to flooding, including sections of Routes EE, H, and PP.

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Shrum2.2 miles19
Loyd3.4 miles19
Mayfield4.2 miles19
Tallent4.5 miles19
Scopus5.0 miles19
Bessville5.1 miles18
Grisham5.3 miles19
Patton5.9 miles19

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 HurricaneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16892562The 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.