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Medill, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63445. The Survey maps it on the Medill quadrangle.

Medill within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Medill between 1997 and 2018, burning about 213 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation140216-02309-09292016-1231
8 June 2018Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177750-02309-06082018-1347
25 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177047-02309-05252018-2253
5 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation136591-02309-04052016-1527
30 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177050-02309-04302018-1931
30 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177051-02309-04302018-1532
27 April 2018Debris and open burning1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177054-02309-04272018-1800
26 April 1997Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Medill: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Casey QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Story QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Baker Quarry - #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brooks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medill in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMedill-Recorded winds of 55 to 60 MPH in a gust.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMedill-A tree was blown down onto a road. The time was based on radar data.
June 2023Tornado (EF1)Medill-A NWS storm survey determined an EF1 tornado, with peak winds near 90 mph, tracked for 2.4 miles from southwest of Medill to just west of Kahoka. Damage to an outbuilding occurred, along with convergent damage to numerous large trees.
June 2020Flash FloodMedill-Law Enforcement reported that water was over old Business Route 136 just west of Kahoka.
May 2019HailMedill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Ashton1.9 miles16
Kahoka3.1 miles17
Union5.1 miles16
Clark City5.1 miles17
Luray5.8 miles15
Waterloo5.8 miles17
Eldorado6.1 miles15
Chambersburg6.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741057. 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.