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Mill Grove, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64673. The Survey maps it on the Mill Grove quadrangle.

Mill Grove within Mercer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Mill Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 652 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179007-04067-07042019-1510
13 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220611-04067-07132020-1215
16 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177373-04067-06162018-1048
18 May 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177460-02319-05102018-1822
7 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177154-04067-04072018-1639
28 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177458-02319-04282018-1515
11 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined118 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Mill Grove: 28 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Ballew QuarryLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fullerton QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Buren QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Franklin Twp QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mcclain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mcdowell QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Princeton Quarrye I SargentStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this place

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mill Grove in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMill Grove$10,000A machine shed as destroyed and the debris was tossed several hundred feet east. Power poles were also snapped near Mill Grove.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Mill Grove-A weak EF0 tornado began southeast of Spickard east of 7th Avenue, producing sporadic and intermittent tree damage along its path. The tornado tracked north-northeast across Hwy B and County Line Road into Mercer County before dissipating north of Jasper Road.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMill Grove-A metal lean-to was knocked over.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMill Grove-Large tree branches downed across Mill Grove.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMill Grove-Large tree branches downed across Mill Grove.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMill Grove-Several power outages were reported in Princeton.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMill Grove-Large tree limb was reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
May 2009Flash FloodMill Grove-State Route D was closed due to flooding on the road.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Mill Grove-Tornado crossed into Mercer county from Grundy county near Mill Grove.
June 2004Flash FloodMill Grove-Route D east of Route U impassable due to water over the road.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindMill Grove-Large tree reported down.
May 2018HailMill Grove-no account filed
May 2018HailMill Grove-no account filed
April 2006HailMill Grove-no account filed
June 2004HailMill Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Modena4.6 miles10
Princeton6.4 miles10
Topsy6.7 miles7
Goshen6.8 miles10
Dinsmore8.3 miles10
Half Rock8.7 miles7
Alvord (historical)10.1 miles10
Ravanna12.1 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740003. 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.