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Plainview, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pineville North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64831. The Survey maps it on the McNatt quadrangle.

Plainview 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Plainview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,588 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
22 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 July 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 July 1992Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179183-07353-04092019-1350
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 1995Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plainview in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Plainview2 hurt, $25,000A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado impacted rural sections of McDonald County. Several trees were snapped or uprooted. One large tree fell on a house causing structural damage along with two injuries.
May 2020HailPlainview-Golf ball sized hail was reported.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindPlainview-Thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over a large tree across the road causing a vehicle accident.

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
Wylie2.0 miles13
Meadors Ford3.2 miles13
McCullough Ford3.4 miles13
Bethpage3.6 miles14
Cyclone3.8 miles13
Deep Ford4.8 miles13
Crag O Lea4.9 miles13
McNatt4.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 724454. 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.

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.