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Pack, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elk River West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64854. The Survey maps it on the South West City quadrangle. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Pack within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Pack between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,016 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning8
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
6 August 2012Natural50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2012Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30346
19 July 2006Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pack: 11 past producers, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
Armstrong & Cravens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
John P Hughes QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joplin-Elk River Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lewis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Madge Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mill Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pack in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 3 hail. 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
May 2011HailPack$50,000Emergency management reported golf ball size hail on Highway 43 about 3 miles north of Southwest City.
July 2018HailPack-Nickel and quarter-sized hail was reported just north of Southwest City off of MO-43.
November 2008HailPack-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Saratoga2.7 miles13
Armstrong Quarry2.8 miles13
Spring Valley3.6 miles13
Noel3.7 miles13
South West City4.2 miles13
Mount Shira6.3 miles13
Elk Springs6.7 miles13
Ginger Blue6.8 miles13

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 PackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985963The 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 740064. 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.