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Owls Bend, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Eminence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65466. It stands on Bloom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Powder Mill Ferry quadrangle.

Owls Bend within Shannon County

On record in Owls Bend

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Owls Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,007 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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
4 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverMACY
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverWEST BLUE SPRING
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverMARTIN BLUFF
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverKLEPZIG MILL
25 June 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOzark National Scenic RiverROBERTS
3 May 2014Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shannon County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Owls Bend: 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Iron, Manganese, Lead. 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
Blair Creek ProspectLeadProspect1962
Bonanza ProspectCopperProspect
Freeman LandCopperProspect
Jacks Fork MineIronProspect
James Jones LandIron, ManganeseProspect
Unknown ManganeseManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Shannon County

Storms near this place

23 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owls Bend in 23 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 18 flood, 5 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
March 2026FloodOwls Bend-State Highway NN was closed due to flooding.
March 2026FloodOwls Bend-State Highway NN was closed due to flooding at Rocky Creek.
June 2025Flash FloodOwls Bend-Route NN was closed due to flooding of Rocky Creek.
May 2024Flash FloodOwls Bend-State Highway NN was closed due to flooding along Rocky Creek.
March 2023FloodOwls Bend-Highway NN at Rocky Creek was flooded and impassable.
March 2023FloodOwls Bend-Highway NN at Rocky Creek was closed due to flooding.
April 2022Flash FloodOwls Bend-Highway NN at Rocky Creek was flooded and impassable.
March 2022FloodOwls Bend-Highway NN at Rocky Creek was flooded and impassable.
March 2020FloodOwls Bend-State Highway NN was closed at Rocky Creek due to flooding.
February 2020FloodOwls Bend-Highway NN at the Rocky Creek low water crossing was impassible due to flooding over the roadway.
October 2020FloodOwls Bend-Highway NN at Rocky Creek was closed due to flooding at the low water crossing.
January 2019FloodOwls Bend-Route NN was closed due to flooding along Rocky Creek southeast of Eminence.
February 2019FloodOwls Bend-MODOT reported a flooded low-water crossing at Route NN and Rocky Creek due to heavy rainfall.
February 2019FloodOwls Bend-Highway NN was closed both east and west bound at Rocky Creek due to a flooded low-water crossing.
April 2019FloodOwls Bend-State Highway NN was closed due to flooding along Rocky Creek.
April 2015FloodOwls Bend-Route NN at Rocky Creek was closed due to flooding.
June 2013FloodOwls Bend-Route NN was closed.
December 2013FloodOwls Bend-MODOT reported that Route NN was closed in both directions in the vicinity of Rocky Creek.
February 2013FloodOwls Bend-MODOT reported that the low water crossing along Highway NN was flooded.
January 2013Flash FloodOwls Bend-MODOT reported that Highway NN was flooded and closed.
May 2010Flash FloodOwls Bend-Route NN from Route H to 4.4 miles east of Route H was closed due to flooding.
May 2010FloodOwls Bend-A low water crossing on state Highway NN was flooded and closed.
October 2009FloodOwls Bend-Route NN along Rocky Creek was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Shannon 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
Gang2.8 miles20
Deslet3.9 miles16
Junction Ferry4.3 miles22
Shawne5.8 miles22
Beal6.9 miles20
Brushy Mill (historical)8.7 miles20
Himont (historical)9.2 miles18
Eminence9.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739898. 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.