BlockLocust Hill, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Salt River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63460. It stands on Shelton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Locust Hill quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Edina quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Locust Hill quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Kirksville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Locust Hill in 1997, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust Hill in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Locust Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs onto Highway B southwest of Novelty. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Locust Hill | - | Thunderstorm winds caused moderate damage to a cattle shed. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Locust Hill | - | Over 6 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Highway 151 east of Novelty. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Locust Hill | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Highway 151 southeast of Novelty. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Locust Hill | - | Between two and three inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including Route C north of Highway 11, Highway 15 just north of Greensburg, and Highway 15 north of Edina. Also, water from Bridge Creek was flowing onto Highway V north of Knox City. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Locust Hill | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741021. 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.