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Linkville, Missouri

37 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1983. It stands in May Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64164. The Survey maps it on the Ferrelview quadrangle.

Linkville within Platte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 37 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

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Linkville between 2006 and 2007, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 June 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Linkville: 12 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Drennon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ferrelview QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Miller QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Miller Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Riley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linkville in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 6 hail, 1 flash 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 2016HailLinkville-Report received via social media.
September 2015Flash FloodLinkville-Six to twelve inches of water flowing over Green Hills Road near 108th St.
September 2019HailLinkville-no account filed
September 2019HailLinkville-no account filed
April 2016HailLinkville-no account filed
May 2016HailLinkville-no account filed
May 2009HailLinkville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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
Ferrelview0.8 miles37
Platte Gardens2.0 miles37
Tarrytown2.4 miles37
Hoover4.1 miles37
Tiffany Springs4.2 miles37
Hampton4.9 miles37
Kerrville5.2 miles36
Lake Waukomis5.5 miles40

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 721120. 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.