Jacket, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mountain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65745. It lies near White Oak Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Jacket quadrangle. It stands 1,148 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1941 USGS Rocky Comfort quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Rocky Comfort quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Jacket quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Neosho quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Jacket between 1992 and 2020, burning about 946 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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 burning | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 32 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Natural | 10 acres | Pea Ridge National Military Park | GUTHRIE ROAD |
| 20 August 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Pea Ridge National Military Park | 19 DODD ROAD WF |
| 1 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 August 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Pea Ridge National Military Park | RM SYCAMORE |
| 30 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Pea Ridge National Military Park | EAGLE CREST FIRE |
| 30 June 2012 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Pea Ridge National Military Park | JONES TP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacket in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Jacket | $200,000 | State Route KK at Big Sugar Creek was flooded and closed. This storm report will contain the overall flood damage estimates across McDonald County for this storm event. There were several episodes and heavy rainfall events which led to a compound affect to the flooding damage. Numerous roads, bridges, and low water crossings were heavily damaged. |
| December 2021 | Flash Flood | Jacket | $10,000 | The Postage Lane low water bridge suffered minor surface damage from fast moving flood waters. The low water bridge was under approximately 3 feet of fast moving water per pipe measurements. The road was impassable for multiple hours. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Jacket | $500 | Hail up to one-inch in diameter lasted for five minutes. Reported by county officlas. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Jacket | - | Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Jacket | - | State Highway KK at the Big Sugar Creek low water crossing was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2021 | Flash Flood | Jacket | - | Route KK was closed at Pine Creek due to flooding. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Jacket | - | Quarter size hail was reported. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Jacket | - | Highway KK was flooded and impassable at Big Sugar Creek. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Jacket | - | Route KK was impassable and closed due to flooding. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Jacket | - | Route KK near Big Sugar Creek was closed due to flooding. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Jacket | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cove | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Arnett | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Caverna | 8.6 miles | 17 | |
| Powell | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Jane | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cyclone | 10.8 miles | 13 | |
| Griffin Ford | 11.1 miles | 13 | |
| McCullough Ford | 11.2 miles | 13 |
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 Jacket | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14704324 | 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 740959. 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.
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.






