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Ohio, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Monegaw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64724. The Survey maps it on the Ohio quadrangle.

Ohio within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ohio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 April 1995Debris and open burning143 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
29 March 1994Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 February 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 October 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230887-04225-10162020-0000
26 January 2018Debris and open burning1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178017-04226-01262018-1520

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ohio in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2020Flash FloodOhio$25,000A culvert was washed out on Route F between Highways A and 52.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindOhio$5,000The St. Clair County sheriff office reported a roof was blown off a barn and severe damage to a grain bin.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOhio-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOhio-Several tree limbs were blown down on Highway A.
April 2014Flash FloodOhio-The low water crossing at Highway A and Highway E was flooded and impassable.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindOhio-Trees were blown down along Highway A approximately four miles west of its intersection with Highway 13.
April 2008HailOhio-no account filed
April 2001HailOhio-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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
Copeland3.7 miles18
Johnson City4.8 miles19
Chalk Level4.8 miles20
Iuka Springs5.4 miles19
Chloe6.6 miles20
Lowry City6.7 miles20
Monegaw Springs8.7 miles20
Appleton City9.7 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on OhioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197484The 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 756476. 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.