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Indian Grove, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Brunswick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65236. The Survey maps it on the Indian Grove quadrangle.

Indian Grove within Chariton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Indian Grove between 2002 and 2018, burning about 42 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 November 2014Recreation and ceremony15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176349-05835-01272018-0902
26 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176344-05835-01262018-1255
26 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176348-05835-01262018-1703

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Indian Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Grove in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 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
April 2023HailIndian Grove-no account filed
May 2001HailIndian Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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
Newcomer2.9 miles11
Guthridge3.8 miles9
Newhall4.6 miles11
Chraneville (historical)5.7 miles9
Mike7.2 miles9
Keytesville7.3 miles15
Mendon7.6 miles10
Brunswick7.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720133. 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.