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Ozark Beach, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65653. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Branson quadrangle.

Ozark Beach within Taney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Ozark Beach between 1993 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2000Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178259-10604-09262018-1503
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179441-10604-08092019-1940
31 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation251307-10604-08312020-2019
5 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179440-10604-07052019-0907
4 July 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 July 1997Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taney County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ozark Beach: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Iron. 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
Silver Moon MineZincPast Producer
Syler LandIronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead - ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Table Rock Sand + Gravel Pit + PlanSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Taney County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozark Beach in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindOzark Beach-A NWS storm survey revealed straight line winds snapped multiple cedar trees.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindOzark Beach-Several trees were blown down in Empire Park near Powersite.

Every storm recorded in Taney 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
Edgewater Beach0.2 miles14
Powersite1.0 miles14
Forsyth2.1 miles14
Shepherd of the Hills Estates2.5 miles14
Mildred2.6 miles14
Kirbyville2.8 miles14
Rockaway Beach3.0 miles14
Long Beach3.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 723934. 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.