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McGirk, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Walker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65018. The Survey maps it on the Russellville quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

McGirk within Moniteau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of McGirk in 2019, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190101-06841-08092019-1200
15 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190102-06841-08152019-1450
3 July 2019Debris and open burning2.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190097-06841-07032019-1600
25 July 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190098-06841-07252019-1700
19 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190090-06841-03192019-1955

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moniteau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of McGirk: 20 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
Reed DiggingsZinc, Barium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chambers Lead MineLeadPast Producer
UnknownBarium-BaritePast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown-LsBarium-BaritePast Producer
Crown MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Liberty MineBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Moniteau County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McGirk in 1 storm report in 1995: 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMcGirk-Power lines and poles were blown down in the Jamestown area. Winds gusts as high as 60 mph were reported several minutes later in McGirk.

Every storm recorded in Moniteau 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
California4.9 miles19
Kliever6.1 miles19
Bacon6.8 miles18
Corticelli7.4 miles18
Sandy Hook10.1 miles18
Clarksburg10.5 miles18
High Point10.6 miles19
Jamestown10.7 miles20

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 McGirkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471269The 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 722115. 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.