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Klondike, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63332. It stands on Bigelow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Labadie quadrangle.

Klondike within St. Charles County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Klondike between 2001 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking1

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
12 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation241106-09222-06072020-2042
13 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation241107-09222-04132020-0443
1 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation241101-09222-03082020-1526
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation241104-09222-03082020-1951
6 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Charles County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Klondike: 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Penn. Glass-Klondike Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Matson QsuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Meyer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Six Flags Matls QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tavern Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Charles County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klondike in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2014HailKlondike-Baseball sized hail produced holes in siding on several homes. Also, the hail damaged vinyl window sills and gutters.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Klondike-Klondike Park officials reported a brief tornado that downed some trees in the park.
April 2015HailKlondike-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Charles 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
Augusta2.1 miles21
Matson3.2 miles22
Dartmound (historical)3.2 miles21
Schluersburg3.7 miles24
Defiance5.0 miles24
Nona5.3 miles21
Femme Osage6.6 miles22
Mechanicsville8.2 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756254. 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.