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Idalia, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Castor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63825. The Survey maps it on the Essex quadrangle.

Idalia within Stoddard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

8 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Idalia between 2018 and 2020, burning about 20 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
27 September 2020Debris and open burning8.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230920-10395-09272020-1600
7 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177386-10395-08072018-1237
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177352-10393-07142018-1340
23 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation210550-10395-06232020-1805
13 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation210528-10395-06132020-1700
10 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation251259-10395-11102020-1130
8 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177834-10395-10082018-1320
2 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179446-10395-10022019-1745

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stoddard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Idalia: 21 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Buff Clay PitClayPast Producer
Brown Sand & Gravel-Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stoddard County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Idalia in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2008Tornado (EF1)Idalia$250,000One house was heavily damaged. The roof was partially torn off the house, and debris was thrown 100 to 200 yards. Three outbuildings and an equipment shed were destroyed. A trailer was thrown about 75 yards. Approximately ten power poles were snapped in half. Windows of vehicles were broken by debris. A few large trees were snapped. A pump house was blown into a propane tank, causing a propane leak. There were two eyewitness accounts of a funnel cloud. Peak winds were estimated at 110 mph. The average path width was about 100 yards.
March 1996Tornado (F1)Idalia$75,000no account filed
May 2008Flash FloodIdalia-Up to two feet of water was briefly over a few roads.

Every storm recorded in Stoddard 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
Circle City3.1 miles13
Guam3.3 miles13
Essex3.5 miles13
Bloomfield3.9 miles15
Hunterville4.1 miles13
Clines Island4.5 miles13
Avert4.6 miles13
Grayridge5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720070. 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.