Leverton, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grantsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64674. It stands on Plumb Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle.

Leverton within Linn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1946 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Brookfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:100000
1984 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Leverton between 1992 and 2004, burning about 180 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 burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 February 1992	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 December 2004	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Linn 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bear Branch	1.3 miles	11
Shelby	2.8 miles	11
Grantsville	2.9 miles	11
Garner	4.6 miles	11
Hybrid (historical)	4.7 miles	11
Johnstown	5.2 miles	11
Purdin	5.7 miles	11
Enterprise	5.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740225. 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.