BlockKinderpost, Missouri
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65542. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 20 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.
- 1937 USGS Edgar Springs quadrangle1:48000
- 1945 USGS Edgar Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Beulah quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Edgar Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Rolla quadrangle1:250000
- 2004 USGS Beulah quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
29 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Kinderpost between 1992 and 2018, burning about 454 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.3 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | PADDY ACCESS 2 |
| 4 June 1997 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 May 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | CATAMOUNT |
| 8 April 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 29 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | RED |
| 8 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | not named |
| 29 April 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | OLD BOB |
| 28 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinderpost in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Hail | Kinderpost | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 750608. 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.