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Medford, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Rose Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64040. The Survey maps it on the Kingsville quadrangle.

Medford within Johnson County

On record in Medford

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

8,644 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rose Hill Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rose Hill Township - 8,644 words.

Fires near this place

19 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Medford between 2003 and 2019, burning about 144 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
13 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178823-05130-04132019-1340
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation120274-05161-03142015-1105

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Medford: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medford in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 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 2025Thunderstorm WindMedford-Social media report of a corn field flattened by strong winds south of Holden. Additional report of downed wires in the area.
May 2003HailMedford-no account filed
May 2002HailMedford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Rose Hill3.5 miles14
Holden4.4 miles18
Denton4.9 miles18
Quick City5.0 miles13
Magnolia5.0 miles18
Latour5.2 miles14
Fenwick5.3 miles14
Kingsville7.1 miles14

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 MedfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985563The 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 758440. 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.