Loring, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65662. The Survey maps it on the Hartville quadrangle.

Loring within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1956 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Loring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 916 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	47
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
12 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
31 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
31 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
26 August 1992	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
28 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
7 April 2017	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2000	Debris and open burning	140 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loring in 13 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2008	Flash Flood	Loring	1 killed, $10,000	One to three inches of rain fell over Wright County. Any areas that typically flood during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded. A 54 year old male attempted to cross Austin Ford Bridge, which was experiencing significant flooding. Austin Ford Bridge is a bridge along Highway E that crosses the Gasconade River. His truck was swept into the swift flowing water where he drowned.
August 2012	Lightning	Loring	2 hurt	no account filed
March 2008	Flash Flood	Loring	$1,000,000	Widespread rainfall amounts ranged from seven to nine inches over Wright County. All low areas that flood during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded. Major road and bridge damage occurred on county roads.
May 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Loring	$50,000	A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado with 90 to 100 mph winds occurred four miles northwest of Hartville. The tornado destroyed several outbuildings and uprooted numerous trees.
July 2024	Flood	Loring	-	Social media report of Steins Creek overflowing.
March 2021	Hail	Loring	-	Nickle sized hail was reported.
October 2021	Hail	Loring	-	Nickle sized hail was reported.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Loring	-	Multiple large tree limbs were downed and trash dumpsters displaced by high thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Loring	-	Just north of Odin, 5.50 inches of rainfall was reported in the last 24 hours.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Loring	-	An amateur radio operator estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Loring	-	Wolf Creek flooded a section of Highway AB. Flooding also occurred at the intersection of Highway E and Highway 38.
January 2008	Hail	Loring	-	no account filed
January 2008	Hail	Loring	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wright 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Boyer	2.3 miles	12
Fuson	4.1 miles	16
Grovespring	4.2 miles	12
Durbin	4.4 miles	12
Odin	5.8 miles	12
Smittle	6.2 miles	12
Rembert (historical)	7.2 miles	12
Hartville	7.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741027. 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.