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Mohawk Corner, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in McKinley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65727. It stands on Claude Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sentinel quadrangle.

Mohawk Corner within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Mohawk Corner between 1992 and 2011, burning about 290 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 April 2001Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1997Debris and open burning60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation330TH ROAD
13 March 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 February 1992Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 December 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 November 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mohawk Corner: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Pittsburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mohawk Corner in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2020Thunderstorm WindMohawk Corner$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed several large branches, some of which caused minor damage to a vehicle.
June 2008HailMohawk Corner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Polk2.0 miles19
Sentinel2.5 miles24
Rimby3.7 miles19
Huckaby3.7 miles19
Huron3.8 miles19
Adonis4.1 miles24
Goodson4.8 miles19
Clifford (historical)5.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741078. 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.