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Palace, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Piney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65552. It lies near Wildcat Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Roby quadrangle.

Palace within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Palace between 1993 and 2020, burning about 515 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1

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
24 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMark Twain National ForestSKIDDER
12 July 2020Smoking1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220559-10735-07122020-1805
21 May 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPUMP STATION ROAD #1
21 May 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresMark Twain National ForestPUMP STATION ROAD #2
16 May 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestBALD
3 April 1996Arson/incendiarism42 acresMark Twain National ForestROUND BALE
21 April 2006Debris and open burning13 acresMark Twain National ForestTWENTY ONE
19 April 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestPIPELINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Palace: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palace in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2025Tornado (EF1)Palace$50,000An EF1 tornado with peak winds around 90 mph continued from Texas County into southern Pulaski County, including Fort Leonard Wood. In Pulaski County, the tornado damaged outbuildings and uprooted numerous trees.
March 2023Flash FloodPalace-Heavy rainfall flooded a low water crossing on Highway AW south of Fort Leonard Wood.
May 2023HailPalace-Spotters estimated hail from nickle to ping pong ball sized hail fell.
November 1995HailPalace-A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball-size hail. There were also several reports of brief tornadoes, none of which could be confirmed.
February 2009HailPalace-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Big Piney4.2 miles23
Cookville4.2 miles20
Saint Annie (historical)4.3 miles20
Bloodland4.7 miles20
Ross Bridge5.8 miles23
Greenview6.7 miles17
Hanna9.7 miles20
Buckhorn13.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 751475. 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.