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Kinsey, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63627. It lies near Hog Spring Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Danby quadrangle.

Kinsey within Ste. Genevieve County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Kinsey between 1994 and 2020, burning about 79 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
11 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 April 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 April 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 March 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 March 1995Arson/incendiarism30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 1995Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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 Kinsey: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Robbin's Lead MineLeadPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Udding QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Udding QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ste. Genevieve County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinsey in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
April 2025Flash FloodKinsey$30,000Fourche a Du Clos flooded over Highway Y at Jackson School Road deeming it impassable through the first low bottom bridge headed eastbound. A water rescue was reported at this location. On April 5th, water was reported over the roadway near Missouri 32. During the event, portions of Ste. Genevieve County received 3.75 to 6.25 inches of rainfall.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKinsey-Thunderstorm winds uprooted, snapped, and topped numerous large trees west and northwest of Bloomsdale. This wind damage is separate from a confirmed tornado that occurred nearby.
May 2025Tornado (EF0)Kinsey-A brief tornado touched down near Dry Fork, uprooting trees. From there the tornado tracked northeast, causing more tree damage before dissipating near Cindy Lane.
March 2019HailKinsey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ste. Genevieve 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
Valley View1.9 miles18
Needmore4.3 miles19
Goose Creek Lake4.5 miles19
Lawrenceton4.6 miles19
Bloomsdale4.6 miles19
Brickeys6.0 miles19
Clement7.4 miles19
Lake Forest Estates7.7 miles18

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 KinseyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16893502The 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 740986. 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.