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Musselfork, Missouri

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Musselfork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65261. The Survey maps it on the Mike quadrangle.

Musselfork within Chariton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Musselfork in 2018, burning about 78 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning1

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
22 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177094-05835-04222018-0536
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177095-05835-04212018-1050
4 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176384-05835-03042018-1052
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176382-05835-03032018-1032
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176383-05835-03032018-1250
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176386-05835-03142018-2017
27 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176349-05835-01272018-0902
26 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176344-05835-01262018-1255

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chariton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Musselfork in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2003: 1 flash flood, 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
May 2002Flash FloodMusselfork-Highway D and highway O at Bee Branch closed due to high water.
May 2003HailMusselfork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chariton 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
Hamden3.3 miles9
Chraneville (historical)3.5 miles9
Echo3.5 miles9
Eccles4.3 miles15
Mike5.3 miles9
Guthridge5.4 miles9
Westville6.5 miles9
Bynumville6.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735741. 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.