BlockNeeper, Missouri
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63445. It stands on Foree Branch. The Survey maps it on the Neeper quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1903 USGS Kahoka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Neeper quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Neeper quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Neeper between 1996 and 2018, burning about 64 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177746-02309-09272018-1955 |
| 1 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177747-02309-08012018-2203 |
| 28 July 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177748-02309-07282018-1624 |
| 20 July 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177749-02309-07192018-0634 |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 177052-02309-04282018-1958 |
| 1 April 1997 | Smoking | 30 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 22 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neeper in 3 storm reports in 2017: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neeper | - | An NWS Storm Survey team found small limbs broken that were up to 1 inch diameter. |
| December 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neeper | - | An NWS Storm Survey team found small limbs down that were up to the size of 1 inch diameter. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neeper | - | A car was reported to have crashed into a large tree branch on the highway that had been blown down by the thunderstorm. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741092. 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.