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Norris, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64726. The Survey maps it on the Blairstown quadrangle.

Norris within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Norris between 1994 and 2018, burning about 83 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178026-04279-03122018-1600
10 March 2018Debris and open burning1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176368-05130-03102018-1018
20 February 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation133256-02222-02202016-1031
20 February 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation133257-02222-02202016-1031
16 February 2018Debris and open burning50 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176357-05130-02162018-1421
23 October 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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 Norris: 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 - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norris in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flood. 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
July 2017FloodNorris-Route N near Blairstown was closed in both directions.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Maurine2.2 miles18
Petersburg2.6 miles19
Blairstown4.2 miles18
Huntingdale5.1 miles18
Harvey5.4 miles18
Garland5.8 miles18
Hartwell6.2 miles18
Urich7.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729788. 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.