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Minimum, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63620. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Des Arc NE quadrangle. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Minimum within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Minimum between 1992 and 2018, burning about 486 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
1 August 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2007Arson/incendiarism207 acresMark Twain National ForestTILK HOLLOW
26 April 1996Smoking11 acresMark Twain National ForestTILK HOLLOW
8 March 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 March 2014Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresMark Twain National ForestCRANE LAKE
26 March 1995Recreation and ceremony53 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Minimum: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Stone, 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
Annapolis MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer1865, 1915
Benson QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Martin MineManganesePast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadProspect
Unknown - LeadStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Carr LandIronOccurrence
Chrisco LandIronOccurrence
Grandin BankIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minimum in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2021Tornado (EF1)Minimum-A tornado touched down on south side of County Road 124, 1.3 miles west intersection with Highway E, in southern Iron County. This tornado uprooted several trees and broke branches on numerous other trees before continuing into a field where it damaged a manufactured home. The tornado then moved into a densely wooded portion of Mark Twain National Forest where it uprooted or damaged many trees as it crossed from Iron County, about 8 miles east of Glover, into Madison County. The tornado was rated EF1 with a path length of 4.35 miles and a max path width of 250 yards in Madison County. No deaths or injuries.
August 2016Flash FloodMinimum-Up to 4 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding across the southern portions of Iron County. Numerous roads were flooded including Routes C and F east and southeast of Annapolis.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindMinimum-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Highway C east of Annapolis.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Annapolis5.9 miles20
Vulcan6.1 miles20
Sabula6.1 miles19
Des Arc7.0 miles20
Chloride7.9 miles19
Berryman8.7 miles19
Glover9.4 miles19
Allen Mills10.5 miles25

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 MinimumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985386The 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 751119. 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.