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Phelps City, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Templeton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64482. The Survey maps it on the Rock Port quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Phelps City within Atchison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

15 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Phelps City between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,221 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230706-00310-08262020-1128
7 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230704-00310-04072020-1645
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230703-00310-03082020-1645
8 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230702-00310-03062020-1443
26 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,200 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atchison County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Phelps City: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Mikkelson Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Atchison County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phelps City in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 hail, 3 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPhelps City-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPhelps City-Large tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2020HailPhelps City-no account filed
September 2014HailPhelps City-no account filed
March 2012HailPhelps City-no account filed
April 2010HailPhelps City-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPhelps City-no account filed
May 1996HailPhelps City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atchison 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
Langdon3.4 miles14
Rock Port4.4 miles12
Watson5.2 miles12
Linden6.6 miles12
Sonora7.3 miles13
Nishnabotna8.8 miles14
Fairfax11.8 miles13
Tarkio12.0 miles12

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 Phelps CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7181261The 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 724280. 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.