Kilwinning, Missouri

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Miller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63536. The Survey maps it on the Kilwinning quadrangle.

Kilwinning within Scotland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kilwinning quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kilwinning between 1992 and 2018, burning about 121 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
27 March 1992	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 March 1992	Arson/incendiarism	17 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 March 2002	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 March 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 January 2018	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177366-09945-01272018-1608

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scotland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kilwinning in 2 storm reports in 2006: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2006	Hail	Kilwinning	$3,000	covered the ground
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Kilwinning	$100	A spotter reported 1 to 2 inch diameter limbs down on the Scotland/Schuyler line. Heavy rain was also noted with 0.80 inches occurring with the storm.

Every storm recorded in Scotland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crawford	4.9 miles	9
Hitt	5.0 miles	7
Middle Fabius	5.1 miles	9
Energy	8.5 miles	9
Brock	10.0 miles	7
Memphis	10.0 miles	10
Unity	10.3 miles	9
Bible Grove	12.1 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735675. 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.