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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1940 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Marshall North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Marshall quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
8,169 words on this townshipHistory 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 1993Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 1 September 1999 | Smoking | 7.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 30 July 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 21 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Hail | Norton | - | A supercell produced 1.25 hail east of Malta Bend in Saline County. |
| April 2020 | Tornado (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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orearville | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Slater | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Montague Hill | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Fairville | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Marshall | 6.0 miles | 18 | |
| Stanhope | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Sharon | 7.2 miles | 16 | |
| Gilliam | 7.4 miles | 18 |
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.










