Oyer, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Roscoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64744. It stands on Oyer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Roscoe quadrangle.

Oyer within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1938 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000
1940 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Roscoe quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Oyer between 1992 and 2016, burning about 1,104 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
9 April 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
1 April 2002	Debris and open burning	192 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
27 March 2002	Arson/incendiarism	252 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 March 2014	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
21 March 1995	Debris and open burning	230 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
21 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 March 1992	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 March 1992	Arson/incendiarism	55 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oyer: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown - Ls.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oyer in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 2 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2020	Heavy Rain	Oyer	-	The CoCoRAHS station MO-SR-8 El Dorado Springs Reported 2.18 inches of rainfall.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Oyer	-	A 24 hour rainfall of 1.90 inches was measured.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Oyer	0.5 miles	16
Ebb (historical)	2.1 miles	19
Story (historical)	2.2 miles	16
Roscoe	3.2 miles	16
Crooks Springs	3.4 miles	16
Osage Heights	3.6 miles	16
Tiffin	3.6 miles	19
Pape	4.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 756491. 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.