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Jack, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Texas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65560. The Survey maps it on the Darien quadrangle.

Jack within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Jack between 1992 and 2020, burning about 908 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4

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
18 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 August 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 July 1999Debris and open burning150 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Jack: 20 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper. 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 - CopperCopperPast Producer
Causey MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Causey MineIronPast Producer
Jamison BankIronPast Producer
Jamison MineIronPast ProducerUnderground
Kerr MineIronPast ProducerSurface
Kerr MineIronPast Producer
Lenox MineIronPast ProducerLimonite
Lenox MineIronPast Producer
Preston MineIronPast ProducerSurface/Underground

Every working recorded in Dent County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jack in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2017FloodJack1 killed, $10,000The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that a man drowned near a low water crossing at County Road 2430 and Dry Fork Creek. The man attempted to drive across a flooded low water crossing but the car was swept away.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindJack$4,000Four large trees toppled or split.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindJack-A large tree was reported down blocking traffic on County Road 2330.
June 2018HailJack-Quarter size hail was reported by the public via social media. Time was estimated via radar.
September 2016Flash FloodJack-Water was reported over the road several inches deep on Highway H near Barnitz Prong Creek. The highway was closed for a brief time to traffic due to the high water.

Every storm recorded in Dent 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
Rhyse3.5 miles18
Darien4.2 miles17
Hedrick4.5 miles18
Smoky Hollow5.0 miles18
Joy5.1 miles18
Ranger6.0 miles18
Custer6.0 miles17
Salem6.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735668. 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.