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Lenox, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Watkins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65541. The Survey maps it on the Edgar Springs quadrangle. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.

Lenox within Dent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Lenox between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,154 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking2
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
15 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 August 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 May 2000Natural8.0 acresMark Twain National ForestABBOTT BRANCH
8 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190475-03322-04082020-2050
7 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190385-03322-04072020-1405
6 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122297-03322-04062015-1647

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dent County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lenox: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Mont. Rouge MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dent County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lenox in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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
October 2021LightningLenox$40,000A large hay barn was witnessed being struck by lightning. The structure was destroyed by a subsequent fire as a result of the lightning strike.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindLenox$10,000A barn suffered minor to moderate damage from high winds near the Lenox area.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLenox$5,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLenox$5,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLenox$2,000Metal roofing of a barn was blown off. Several trees were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindLenox$500The fire chief reported several large trees uprooted.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLenox-A few trees and limbs were down.
March 2008HailLenox-no account filed
March 2008HailLenox-no account filed
April 1999HailLenox-no account filed
October 1996HailLenox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dent 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
North Lenox0.8 miles19
Smoky Hollow4.2 miles18
Anutt4.9 miles18
Hedrick5.2 miles18
Ranger6.7 miles18
Rhyse7.0 miles18
Deep Ford8.3 miles17
Lecoma8.6 miles20

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 LenoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6523148The 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 750685. 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.