BlockBefore

Norton, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Miami Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65340. It stands on Thrailkill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Marshall North quadrangle.

Norton within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the county-history sources

8,169 words on this township

History of Saline County, Missouri, Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources ... with a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men .., published 1881; Past and Present of Saline County, Missouri, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Miami Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Miami Township - 8,169 words.

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Norton between 1993 and 2014, burning about 215 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 September 1999Smoking7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 July 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 March 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norton in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 1 tornado, 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
March 2023HailNorton-A supercell produced 1.25 hail east of Malta Bend in Saline County.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Norton-A landspout formed near Malta Bend. After the office received a couple reports of a funnel cloud underneath new convection some photos were sent to the office via Twitter of a broad dust swirl that extended upward to the cloud base. No damage occurred as a result of this weak and brief landspout.

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Orearville3.6 miles18
Slater3.8 miles18
Montague Hill4.8 miles19
Fairville5.1 miles19
Marshall6.0 miles18
Stanhope6.7 miles16
Sharon7.2 miles16
Gilliam7.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741109. 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.