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Mingsville, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Montgomery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65543. It stands on Shelby Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manes quadrangle.

Mingsville within Wright County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Mingsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,999 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 were 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
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMark Twain National ForestO HIGHWAY
31 August 2004Power generation/transmission/distribution25 acresMark Twain National ForestHOG
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresMark Twain National ForestURBAN
21 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMark Twain National ForestSLIM JIM
5 May 2005Arson/incendiarism18 acresMark Twain National ForestMOORE
9 April 2011Debris and open burning71 acresMark Twain National ForestNORRIS CREEK
9 April 2007Debris and open burning46 acresMark Twain National ForestBLACK JACK
8 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestODER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wright County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mingsville in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMingsville$20,000Several utility lines were reported down near Manes and Competition.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMingsville$6,000A measured 77 mph wind gust downed multiple four to six inch diameter limbs and took down powerlines north of Manes.
March 2025HailMingsville-Hail to the size of ping pong balls fell north of Manes.
November 2015FloodMingsville-A portion of Highway Z was flooded near Elk Creek.
April 2013FloodMingsville-MODOT reported that Route Z was flooded at Elk Creek.

Every storm recorded in Wright 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
Burney Ford3.6 miles17
Maines5.1 miles17
Manes5.2 miles17
Embree5.2 miles17
Jerktail5.5 miles17
Astoria5.6 miles17
Saint George7.3 miles17
Green Mountain8.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 751118. 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.

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.