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Osage City, Missouri

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65101. It stands on Rising Creek. The Survey maps it on the Osage City quadrangle.

Osage City within Cole County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Osage City between 1993 and 2018, burning about 33 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178665-07607-04192018-0850
9 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176463-01416-03092018-1630
8 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135353-01416-03082016-1617
22 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 March 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation134637-01416-03192016-0748
25 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation118870-01416-02252015-1256
8 November 1993Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cole County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Osage City: 20 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Jefferson City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Miner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cole County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osage City in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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
September 2008FloodOsage City-Up to 6 inches of rain fell in short amount of time as the remnants of Hurricane Ike moved through the region causing flooding. Numerous roads were flooded countywide.

Every storm recorded in Cole 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
Schubert2.6 miles23
Taos3.8 miles23
Jefferson City7.7 miles26
Wardsville8.7 miles17
Cole Junction11.0 miles26
Osage Bend11.7 miles17
Osage Bluff12.6 miles17
Honey Creek12.7 miles17

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 Osage CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16896242The 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 723856. 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.