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Linden, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64482. The Survey maps it on the Rock Port quadrangle.

Linden within Atchison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Linden in 2020, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230702-00310-03062020-1443
3 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230698-00310-01032020-1604

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Storms near this place

14 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linden in 14 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2023HailLinden-Quarter sized hail was reported north of Rock Port.
May 2016FloodLinden-Six inches of standing water was reported on local roadways.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLinden-Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
June 2014HailLinden-Reported via Facebook.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLinden-One inch hail also occurred.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLinden-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 70 mph.
June 2014HailLinden-no account filed
May 2013HailLinden-no account filed
March 2012HailLinden-no account filed
May 2011HailLinden-no account filed
August 2009HailLinden-no account filed
August 2009HailLinden-no account filed
June 2008HailLinden-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindLinden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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
Watson4.4 miles12
Rock Port5.3 miles12
Sonora6.5 miles13
Farmers City6.6 miles10
Phelps City6.6 miles12
Tarkio9.0 miles12
Langdon9.2 miles14
Westboro12.0 miles10

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 LindenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q26721022The 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 741015. 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.

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.