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North Patton, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63662. It stands on Baltimore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patton quadrangle.

North Patton within Bollinger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 19 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

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of North Patton between 2019 and 2020, burning about 4 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
13 April 2019Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179387-02359-04132019-1424
19 February 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179384-02359-02192019-1532
1 January 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190302-02359-01012020-1314

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bollinger County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Patton in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2009Thunderstorm WindNorth Patton$8,000,000Thousands of trees were blown down, primarily across northern parts of the county. A lot of structural damage occurred along Highway 72. About 250 homes received some degree of damage, ranging from loose shingles to roofs lifted off. Many barns and outbuildings were destroyed. The Patton and Sedgewickville areas were the hardest hit. In particular, the area from Sedgewickville west to the Madison County line suffered extreme damage. Trees fell on houses, roads, and power lines. Power poles were snapped. Extended power outages lasting 3 to 5 days were widespread. A 28-foot camper was overturned in Sedgewickville. Nearby, a manufacturing company was heavily damaged. Six cars parked in front of the building were crushed by metal beams. The roof of the building was torn off. Across the damage area, emergency workers conducted door-to-door welfare checks. Food and water were distributed to those without power. Blocked roads were a major setback to recovery efforts. The damage was almost all north of Marble Hill.
March 2025Tornado (EF1)North Patton$100,000An EF-1 tornado touched down near County Road 906 southwest of Precinct and moved northeast to the Perry County line near Highway KK. The tornado destroyed a carport and shed on the same property along Highway 51 and took the roof off a barn also along Highway 51. Otherwise, the tornado damaged trees all along its path through Bollinger County. The estimated peak wind was 90 mph. The tornado went on to produce EF-2 damage in Perry County and then crossed the Mississippi River into Randolph County Illinois. The total path length was 33.5 miles.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Patton$2,000Tree branches were down on Highway 51.
August 2020Flash FloodNorth Patton-Numerous roads were covered with water in low spots. Approximately two inches of rain fell in less than one hour.

Every storm recorded in Bollinger 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
Patton Junction0.8 miles19
Precinct1.5 miles19
Patton1.9 miles19
Alliance2.4 miles17
Bollinger Mill3.5 miles17
Heitmans Mill4.6 miles19
Ezra (historical)4.8 miles19
Tallent5.3 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122555974The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 751352. 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.