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Neola, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65661. It stands on Right of Way Branch. The Survey maps it on the Crisp quadrangle.

Neola within Dade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Neola between 1992 and 2019, burning about 561 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
7 August 1997Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178158-921-07052018-1453
20 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178159-921-07202018-1452
7 May 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 April 1994Equipment and vehicle use375 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Neola: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dade County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neola in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
April 2026HailNeola$125,000Hail to the size of golf balls were reported. Damage was reported to vehicles, roofs to two homes, and some equipment.
March 2008Flash FloodNeola$100,000Three to five inches of rain fell over Dade County. All locations that typically experience flooding during periods of excessive rainfall were flooded. County roads and bridges were damaged.
May 2024HailNeola$20,000Social media report of baseball size hail 10 miles north of Greenfield.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindNeola-The emergency manager reported broken tree limbs from a wind gust near Neola.
March 2008FloodNeola-This flooding is a continuation of the flash flooding. Poor drainage areas continued to flood roadways and lowlands near rivers and creeks.
April 2001HailNeola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dade 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
Arcola3.0 miles13
Glen Town3.4 miles15
Sims Point5.0 miles15
Seybert5.2 miles15
Crisp6.2 miles15
Greenfield6.4 miles17
Grays Valley6.9 miles15
Cedarville7.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741094. 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.