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Oakland, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65536. It stands on South Fork North Cobb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakland quadrangle.

Oakland within Laclede County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Oakland between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,078 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 were 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1

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
9 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 September 2000Debris and open burning35 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laclede County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Oakland: 11 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 - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Laclede County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2020Heavy RainOakland-A 24 hour public report of 7.00 inches or rain occurred.
March 2007HailOakland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laclede 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
Russ3.9 miles14
Drynob5.8 miles17
Lyons6.0 miles17
Lebanon6.3 miles14
Abo6.5 miles17
West Lebanon6.6 miles14
Evergreen6.7 miles14
Russell6.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 723662. 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.