Olden, Missouri

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.

• 1945 USGS Willow Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Willow Springs quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
• 1976 USGS Willow Springs SW quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS West Plains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:24000
• 2004 USGS Pomona quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Olden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 939 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Pomona
• West Plains
• Burnham
• Grimmet
• Summers Addition

Every fire recorded in Howell County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Olden: 15 past producers, 9 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Howell County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olden in 42 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 6 heavy rain, 5 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.

Every storm recorded in Howell County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 751430. 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.