BlockOswald, Missouri
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64446. The Survey maps it on the Dotham quadrangle.
On record in Oswald
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
St. Oswald's Protestant Episcopal Churchlisted 1992 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1939 USGS Skidmore quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Skidmore quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Skidmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Dotham quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Oswald between 2019 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179098-00307-05292019-1202 |
| 21 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.1 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179096-00307-04212019-0646 |
| 11 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190431-00307-04112020-0930 |
| 26 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.5 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190360-00307-03262020-1640 |
| 6 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179470-00307-11062019-1924 |
| 5 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230969-00307-11052020-1330 |
| 18 October 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 179461-00307-10182019-1300 |
| 12 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 26 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 230861-00307-10122020-1720 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740427. 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.