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Lake City, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fort Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64016. The Survey maps it on the Blue Springs quadrangle.

Lake City within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

3,445 words on this township

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Fort Osage Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

It is supposed, and there is most satisfactory evidence, that the Missouri River once came through this valley, and pursued about the same course as is now pursued by Fire Prairie Creek. The bayou, or portion of the river which flowed here, came into the land at or near the mouth of Little Blue, and contmuing in a southerly direction, along the course of Little Blue, to near the southeast corner of Tp. 50, R. 31, thence east near the present site of Lake City, and thence following the course of Fire Prairie Creek, uniting again with the main current in Lafayette county. Large cottonwood trees have been found in the sand and earth twenty feet below the surface, about one-half mile northwest of Buckner station. When boring a well near the same place, cockle burs, in a good state of preservation, have been taken out eighteen or twenty feet below the surface ; also, butternut hulls were found at the same depth. Other wells dug in the ancient bed of the great river, show layers of river sand in the exact position left by the flowing current. All things show most conclusively that- nearly all of the Six Mile District was once an island in the Missouri River - the main branch on the north side, where it now flows past Sibley, and the south branch taking the course above mentioned.

Passage source: The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Fort Osage Township.

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lake City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 April 2020Debris and open burning4.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190395-04828-04082020-1735
30 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178717-04828-04162019-1300
14 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190460-04828-04142020-1310
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation166066-04828-03032018-0109
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176053-04828-03142018-1222
28 February 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190148-04828-02282020-1355

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Lake City: 15 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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-Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hutchins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Iowa Point QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Parkville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pink Hill Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake City in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLake City-Relayed report of severe large tree limbs down across Highway 7 near Buckner.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLake City-Social media report of downed power lines and bent over power poles near Indian Trails Elementary.
March 2017HailLake City-Trained spotter at the Lake City Ammo Plant reported golf ball sized hail.
September 2010Flash FloodLake City-Several cars were reported stranded in water up to the bumpers.
May 2007FloodLake City-The Little Blue River near Lake City crested at 23.84 feet, or 5.84 feet above flood stage.
March 2017HailLake City-no account filed
April 2016HailLake City-no account filed
May 2010HailLake City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Buckner3.4 miles20
Ripley3.6 miles24
Blue Mills3.7 miles24
Hiler3.8 miles21
Adams4.6 miles23
Pink Hill5.2 miles21
Cobbler5.3 miles24
East Independence5.4 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720745. 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.