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Nelsonville, Missouri

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Round Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63440. The Survey maps it on the Nelsonville quadrangle.

Nelsonville within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Nelsonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 188 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5

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
6 April 2002Debris and open burning80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.6 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190499-06426-04222020-1200
8 March 2020Debris and open burning7.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190178-06426-03082020-1455
23 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179003-06426-03232019-1415
23 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 March 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190282-06426-03132020-1910
13 March 2002Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nelsonville in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
April 2016HailNelsonville-Ping pong sized hail caused roof damage to a house and knocked out a skylight on an RV on the property.

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
Benbow2.9 miles13
Cherry Dell (historical)3.3 miles10
Naomi5.3 miles13
Heather5.8 miles11
Emerson5.8 miles13
Philadelphia6.8 miles12
Hester9.1 miles13
Little Union10.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741093. 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.