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Possum Walk, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64428. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burlington Junction quadrangle.

Possum Walk within Nodaway County

On record in Possum Walk

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

8 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

2,240 words on this township

Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lincoln Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lincoln Township - 2,240 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Possum Walk between 2018 and 2020, burning about 54 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190156-07499-03042020-1748
3 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190113-07499-03032020-1330
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176045-07499-03142018-1912
17 February 2020Debris and open burning2.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190112-07499-02172020-1420
11 October 2020Equipment and vehicle use51 acresMissouri Department of Conservation230832-07499-10112020-1351

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nodaway 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 Possum Walk: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nodaway County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Possum Walk in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2012: 2 flood, 1 hail. 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 2007FloodPossum Walk-The Nodaway River near Burlington Junction crested at 24.40 feet, or 1.40 feet above flood stage.
May 2007FloodPossum Walk-The Nodaway River at Burlington Junction crested at 24.70 feet, or 1.70 feet above flood stage.
March 2012HailPossum Walk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nodaway 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
Dawsonville2.2 miles14
Elmo2.3 miles12
Clearmont3.0 miles12
Burlington Junction3.5 miles14
Roseberry4.5 miles14
Quitman8.4 miles14
Wilcox9.1 miles11
Pickering13.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741169. 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.