Newport, Missouri

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.

• 1886 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Jerico Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 1994 and 2018, burning about 214 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Layneville
• Bushnell
• Milford
• Kenoma

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Barton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 19 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Barton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729935. 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.