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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Manes quadrangle1:48000
- 1941 USGS Manes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Manes quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Mountain Grove quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Manes quadrangle1:24000
- 2004 USGS Manes quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
64 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 30 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | O HIGHWAY |
| 31 August 2004 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 25 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | HOG |
| 29 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | URBAN |
| 21 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | SLIM JIM |
| 5 May 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 18 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | MOORE |
| 9 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 71 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | NORRIS CREEK |
| 9 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Mark Twain National Forest | BLACK JACK |
| 8 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mark Twain National Forest | ODER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mingsville | $20,000 | Several utility lines were reported down near Manes and Competition. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mingsville | $6,000 | A measured 77 mph wind gust downed multiple four to six inch diameter limbs and took down powerlines north of Manes. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Mingsville | - | Hail to the size of ping pong balls fell north of Manes. |
| November 2015 | Flood | Mingsville | - | A portion of Highway Z was flooded near Elk Creek. |
| April 2013 | Flood | Mingsville | - | MODOT reported that Route Z was flooded at Elk Creek. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burney Ford | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Maines | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Manes | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Embree | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Jerktail | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Astoria | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Saint George | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Green Mountain | 8.0 miles | 17 |
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.








