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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.

Jacket within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

54 since 1992

Regional 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
14 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use32 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 August 2012Natural10 acresPea Ridge National Military ParkGUTHRIE ROAD
20 August 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePea Ridge National Military Park19 DODD ROAD WF
1 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 1994Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 July 2012Naturalunder an acrePea Ridge National Military ParkRM SYCAMORE
30 June 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresPea Ridge National Military ParkEAGLE CREST FIRE
30 June 2012Fireworks5.0 acresPea Ridge National Military ParkJONES TP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Flash FloodJacket$200,000State 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 2021Flash FloodJacket$10,000The 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 1994HailJacket$500Hail up to one-inch in diameter lasted for five minutes. Reported by county officlas.
April 2023HailJacket-Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing.
May 2022FloodJacket-State Highway KK at the Big Sugar Creek low water crossing was closed due to flooding.
April 2021Flash FloodJacket-Route KK was closed at Pine Creek due to flooding.
May 2021HailJacket-Quarter size hail was reported.
June 2019Flash FloodJacket-Highway KK was flooded and impassable at Big Sugar Creek.
April 2017Flash FloodJacket-Route KK was impassable and closed due to flooding.
December 2015Flash FloodJacket-Route KK near Big Sugar Creek was closed due to flooding.
April 1997HailJacket-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Cove4.9 miles14
Arnett7.0 miles14
Caverna8.6 miles17
Powell8.7 miles14
Jane10.8 miles13
Cyclone10.8 miles13
Griffin Ford11.1 miles13
McCullough Ford11.2 miles13

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 JacketAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14704324The 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.