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Kaiser, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Glaze Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65047. The Survey maps it on the Bagnell quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Kaiser within Miller County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Kaiser between 1992 and 2020, burning about 890 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning16
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178207-01509-08242018-1853
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178206-01509-08232018-2020
5 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178066-01509-07202018-2030
19 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179021-01509-07192019-1606
10 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 June 2018Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178298-06633-06082018-1325

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miller County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Kaiser: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Hopkins Mine Number FiveBarium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Long + Ricketts DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown-LsLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Bilyen BankIronPast Producer
Toler BankIronPast Producer
Ozark Sand Co. Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Baryte DiggingsBarium-BaritePast Producer
Bear Creek MinesBarium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Miller County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kaiser in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2004: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKaiser-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a few trees near the entrace to Lake of the Ozarks State Park.
May 2004HailKaiser-no account filed
May 2004HailKaiser-no account filed
May 1998HailKaiser-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miller 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
Arrowhead Beach3.8 miles25
Arrowhead3.9 miles25
Lake Ozark5.2 miles25
Lakeside5.4 miles22
Lakeview5.8 miles22
Brumley6.4 miles19
Bagnell6.5 miles22
Lakeland6.5 miles25

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 KaiserAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471365The 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 729526. 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.