Mayfield, Missouri
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Scopus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63764. It lies near Buck Knob. The Survey maps it on the Scopus quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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.
- 1933 USGS Marble Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1937 USGS Marble Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Scopus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield between 1999 and 2019, burning about 26 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 17 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 June 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179388-02359-06212019-2240 |
| 23 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 7.8 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179385-02359-03232019-1358 |
| 4 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179383-02359-02042019-0452 |
| 19 February 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179384-02359-02192019-1532 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mayfield: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Tornado (EF2) | Mayfield | $70,000 | Several large trees were snapped or uprooted. The walls of a machine shed were blown out and a large barn was collapsed. The tornado path continued into Cape Girardeau County. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Mayfield | - | Considerable flooding of low-lying areas was reported as a result of several rounds of thunderstorms over the past few days. Several roads were covered by water. Northeast of Scopus, County Road 368 was flooded along Little Whitewater Creek. Near Grassy, one lane of Route H was closed due to flooding. The co-operative observer in Marble Hill measured 8.0 inches for the 72 hours ending on the afternoon of the 15th. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scopus | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Hurricane | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Patton | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Sedgewickville | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Patton Junction | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Shrum | 6.0 miles | 19 | |
| Bollinger Mill | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| North Patton | 6.3 miles | 19 |
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 Mayfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16894773 | The 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 722011. 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.










