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Peers, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Charrette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63357. It stands on Dry Fork. The Survey maps it on the Marthasville quadrangle.

Peers within Warren County

On record in Peers

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Peers between 1997 and 2020, burning about 25 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
2 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178976-10928-07022019-1529
26 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220628-10928-06262020-1539
17 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use13 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220627-10928-06172020-1858
6 May 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176985-10928-04202018-1900
16 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 December 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178059-10928-12192018-1643

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Peers: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Fahrmeyer Pits #1ClayPast Producer
Groeper PitClayPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dundee QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
New Haven QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ridder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peers in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindPeers$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees onto Highway 94 just west of Marthasville.
April 2026Tornado (EF0)Peers-A Tornado Debris Signature off of the KLSX radar continued into Warren County from Franklin County. Ground survey was unable to find damage directly associated with tornado, but NWS GIS Mutual Aid analysis of high resolution satellite imagery was able to find tree damage consistent with an EF-0 tornado.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Concord Hill1.3 miles21
Charrette (historical)1.8 miles21
Holstein3.0 miles21
Marthasville3.4 miles21
Treloar3.6 miles21
Hopewell3.9 miles21
Aspenhoff4.9 miles21
Kruegerville (historical)5.2 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 724180. 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.