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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.

Mayfield within Bollinger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

7 since 1999

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 June 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179388-02359-06212019-2240
23 March 2019Debris and open burning7.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179385-02359-03232019-1358
4 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179383-02359-02042019-0452
19 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179384-02359-02192019-1532

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownIronPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2012Tornado (EF2)Mayfield$70,000Several 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 2016FloodMayfield-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.

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Scopus4.1 miles19
Hurricane4.2 miles19
Patton4.8 miles19
Sedgewickville4.8 miles17
Patton Junction5.7 miles19
Shrum6.0 miles19
Bollinger Mill6.2 miles17
North Patton6.3 miles19

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 MayfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16894773The 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.