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Maples, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Sherrill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65542. The Survey maps it on the Maples quadrangle.

Maples within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Maples between 1992 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1

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
15 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 June 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190475-03322-04082020-2050
5 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 April 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Maples: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Childress MineIronPast Producer
Gerrard ProspectIronPast Producer
Licking MineIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Wiggins MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maples in 1 storm report in 2016: 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 2016Thunderstorm WindMaples$5,000A large tree was blown down on Highway C. Numerous power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Kimble3.1 miles19
Sherrill4.9 miles20
Licking7.0 miles18
Kinderpost8.6 miles20
Dent10.3 miles20
Oscar12.0 miles18
Prescott12.5 miles21
Slabtown12.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 721845. 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.