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Peaksville, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sweet Home Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63465. The Survey maps it on the Croton quadrangle.

Peaksville within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Peaksville between 1997 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
21 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177051-02309-04302018-1532
27 April 2018Debris and open burning1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177054-02309-04272018-1800
21 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177057-02309-04212018-0954
17 March 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Peaksville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Baker Quarry - #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brooks QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
T.E. Driscoll QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peaksville in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPeaksville$1,000large tree down blocking Route C between Peaksville and Revere.
June 2021Flash FloodPeaksville-Radar estimated time of flash flooding noted along Route C, about 1 mile south of Highway 81. Water was about 1 foot deep over the road, where travel was not advised.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindPeaksville-The local law enforcement estimated wind gusts of up to 60 mph.
June 2011Flash FloodPeaksville-Heavy rains caused some flash flooding along Highway C near Revere, MO during the morning of June 18.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPeaksville-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some six inch diameter branches just north northwest of Revere, MO at 1:13 pm June 15.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Revere1.3 miles17
Dumas3.4 miles12
Waterloo4.2 miles17
Athens5.2 miles12
Chambersburg5.5 miles12
Clark City6.0 miles17
Anson6.1 miles12
Kahoka6.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 724145. 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.