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Mungers, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Miller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63401. It stands on Walkers Slough. The Survey maps it on the Quincy SW quadrangle.

Mungers within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Mungers between 1992 and 2019, burning about 25 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
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
25 July 2019Smokingunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179720-06417-07252019-1010
5 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177318-06417-05052018-1413
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177477-06438-04122018-1740
30 March 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 February 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 December 1994Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179520-06438-10072019-1115
21 January 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177306-06417-01212018-1255

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Mungers: 12 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bleigh Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fall Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gen Stewart S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Poage PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Central Stone #7 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stewart Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mungers in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMungers$3,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town.
June 2021Tornado (EF0)Mungers-A brief, narrow tornado touched down in a residential subdivision northwest of Hannibal, MO early Friday morning. The tornado first touched down along Rosewood Drive, where it ripped the siding off the westward facing wall of a residential home. The tornado then continued northeast towards Deer Ridge, completely destroying a couple of vinyl fences and breaking limbs off a large tree on the north side of Deer Ridge. The tornado quickly lifted as it pushed east towards Munger Lane. The tornado was rated EF0 with a path length of 0.13 miles and a max path width of 25 yards. No injuries or deaths were reported.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindMungers-Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of a roof as well as a few boards off of a barn northwest of Hannibal.
March 2017HailMungers-no account filed
February 2017HailMungers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Lamb1.3 miles17
Helton1.7 miles18
Mount Zion Community2.8 miles17
Uva3.2 miles17
Hannibal4.0 miles17
Huiskamp4.6 miles18
Oakwood4.9 miles17
Marion City (historical)4.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741087. 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.