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Kimble, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sherrill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65542. The Survey maps it on the Maples quadrangle.

Kimble within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Kimble between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
10 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 June 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190475-03322-04082020-2050
30 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 April 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190491-03322-04202020-1250
16 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190476-03322-04162020-1135

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Kimble: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Childress MineIronPast Producer
Gerrard ProspectIronPast Producer
Licking MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kimble in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKimble-A large tree was reported down on Highway 63. Several other limbs were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Sherrill2.0 miles20
Maples3.1 miles19
Licking5.4 miles18
Kinderpost5.5 miles20
Dent7.2 miles20
Slabtown9.5 miles19
Hazleton10.4 miles19
Prescott10.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720584. 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.