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Longview, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elk Horn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64861. The Survey maps it on the Bethpage quadrangle.

Longview within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Longview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 207 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230657-07353-06102020-2035
8 May 2017Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179183-07353-04092019-1350
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 1992Debris and open burning17 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longview in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2004: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
April 2001Thunderstorm WindLongview4 hurt, $25,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLongview$3,000no account filed
May 2004HailLongview-no account filed
August 2003HailLongview-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindLongview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Simcoe1.9 miles14
Bethpage2.9 miles14
Bethlehem3.7 miles14
McNatt5.9 miles13
Rocky Comfort6.2 miles14
Plainview6.4 miles13
McCullough Ford7.0 miles13
Powell7.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 721561. 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.