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Lone Elm, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Clark Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65237. The Survey maps it on the Lone Elm quadrangle.

Lone Elm within Cooper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Lone Elm between 1999 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
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
3 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190052-02732-09032019-1200
30 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Natural1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 July 1999Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation251262-02732-07102020-1300
4 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176925-02732-04272018-1635

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cooper County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lone Elm in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindLone Elm-Power pole knocked down east of Bunceton.
May 2010HailLone Elm-no account filed
April 1995HailLone Elm-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cooper 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
Petersburg (historical)3.8 miles18
Speed3.9 miles18
Bunceton4.2 miles18
Pisgah5.7 miles17
Bellair5.7 miles18
Clarks Fork6.2 miles18
Billingsville6.2 miles18
Windsor Place7.8 miles18

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 Lone ElmAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27984662The 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 721442. 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.