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Ocie, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Big Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65761. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Protem quadrangle.

Ocie within Ozark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 11 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Ocie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,944 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261360-10606-09182020-1545
16 September 1999Debris and open burning23 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 August 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230666-10606-08252020-1535
22 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 July 2018Arson/incendiarism13 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177325-07721-07092018-1615
24 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ozark County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ocie: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
Holt ShaftsLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ozark County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ocie in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
April 2019Tornado (EF1)Ocie$25,000This is the continuation of the tornado that touched down and tracked from four miles northeast of Protem, Missouri and tracked to five miles northwest of Theodosia in Ozark County, Missouri. A National Weather Service Storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down four miles northeast of Protem, Missouri and tracked to five miles northwest of Theodosia in Ozark County Missouri. The tornado was on the ground for approximately eight minutes along its 5.4 mile total track maximum wind speeds estimated at 100 mph. This tornado was videotaped at a Theodosia storage business, and was also observed by a local pharmacist. Along with trees snapped and uprooted as the tornado moved to the northeast across western Ozark County, two outbuildings were damaged as it crossed Highway 160. The tornado lifted northeast of County Road 902.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindOcie$2,000A National Weather Service storm survey determined damaging winds moved a semi-trailer 8 feet and tipped it over. Multiple trees were blown over.
March 2017HailOcie-Quarter size hail was reported on social media.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOcie-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees at the intersection of Stehle Road and Highway 160.

Every storm recorded in Ozark 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
Lutie3.8 miles14
Theodosia4.7 miles14
Dugginsville4.8 miles14
Theodosia (historical)6.0 miles14
Sundown6.5 miles14
Longrun6.5 miles13
Isabella7.9 miles14
Pontiac8.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 751407. 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.