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Leemon, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Shawnee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63755. The Survey maps it on the Cape Girardeau NE quadrangle.

Leemon within Cape Girardeau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Leemon between 1992 and 1997, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
27 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 March 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1997Natural1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Leemon: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Ceramo Clay PitClayProducer
Unknown S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weiss BankIronProspect

Every working recorded in Cape Girardeau County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leemon in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 2 hail, 1 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
January 2008HailLeemon-no account filed
October 1996HailLeemon-no account filed
October 1996FloodLeemon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cape Girardeau 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
Fruitland2.9 miles19
Sawyer3.0 miles19
Oriole3.2 miles20
Pocahontas3.7 miles24
Neelys Landing5.3 miles26
Brookside5.7 miles19
Lovejoy5.7 miles26
Concord (historical)6.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720893. 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.