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Lanagan, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pineville Lanagan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64831. It lies near Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Noel quadrangle. 373 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Lanagan within McDonald County

Population over time

2 figures

Lanagan fell from 419 to 373 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010419
2020373-46 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Lanagan between 1992 and 2014, burning about 253 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 July 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 1992Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 July 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 July 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 July 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1992Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 1992Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lanagan: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Jeffers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joplin-Elk River Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lanagan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Madge Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Truitt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanagan in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 6 heavy rain, 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 4 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
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLanagan$100,000A NWS storm survey found straight line wind damage for about 1.5 miles along Highway H west of Pineville. There were about 100 trees snapped or uprooted. One barn had the roof ripped off. One barn had the side of the structure buckled in. One tree fell on a pickup truck.
May 2022FloodLanagan-State Highway 59 was flooded along Elk Creek.
June 2019Heavy RainLanagan-A CoCoRaHS Observer measured a 24 hour rainfall total of 3.68 inches.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLanagan-A large tree was down in Lanagan blocking the roadway.
October 2019Heavy RainLanagan-The CoCoRaHS station mo-md-1 near Noel reported 2.58 inches of rainfall.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLanagan-A wind gust of 60 mph was reported.
April 2017Heavy RainLanagan-Rainfall of 3.27 inches was measured since 7 am. This was on top of the previous day rainfall of 2.55 inches measured before 7 am.
April 2017Flash FloodLanagan-McDonald County Sheriff Deputy observed water as far as he could see at the intersection of Indian Creek and Oscar Talley Road.
April 2017Flash FloodLanagan-A section of Highway 59 was flooded about one mile north of Lanagan.
April 2017Heavy RainLanagan-The CoCoRaHS station MO-MD-1 near Lanagan measured 3.66 inches of rainfall in 24 hours.
July 2016Flash FloodLanagan-Happy Hollow Road near Lanagan was impassable due to flooding.
July 2016Heavy RainLanagan-A storm total rainfall of 4.79 inches was measured at the Indian Creek guage near Lanagan.
May 2015HailLanagan-Pea to penny size hail was reported between Pineville and Lanagan.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindLanagan-A large tree was blown down.
August 2013Heavy RainLanagan-In about six hours, 5.56 inches of rainfall was measured.
May 2010Flash FloodLanagan-Highway EE west of Lanagan was flooded and impassable to motorists.
August 1998HailLanagan-The county sheriff's office reported nickel size hail.
June 2008HailLanagan-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodLanagan-no account filed
July 1996HailLanagan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Bosky Dell0.5 miles13
Ginger Blue1.5 miles13
Elk Springs1.7 miles13
Mount Shira2.0 miles13
Poole Ford2.9 miles13
Anderson2.9 miles13
Riverside Inn3.0 miles13
Pineville3.5 miles13

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 LanaganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954326The 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 729915. 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.