BlockPowe, Missouri
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63822. The Survey maps it on the Powe quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1940 USGS Valley Ridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Valley Ridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Powe quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Powe in 2014, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 January 2014 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powe in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Powe | $400,000 | This tornado moved from west to east across southern Stoddard County, passing across the town of Bernie. Peak winds were estimated near 95 mph. Numerous farm machine sheds of varying sizes were leveled. Several homes in Bernie received minor to moderate damage, ranging from loss of shingles to blown out windows and wall sections. A small camper unit was overturned. Several grain bins were damaged on the west side of Bernie. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped. Very strong straight-line winds up to 95 mph just south of the tornado track produced equally intense damage, including a couple leveled barns. This tornado was one of several that were spawned by the same eastward-moving supercell. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powe | $6,000 | West of Bernie along Highway U, a 10-inch maple tree branch blocked the road. In the same area, a two-foot diameter maple tree was broken off. There was some rot in the center of the tree. A few shingles were blown off structures. Numerous twigs and small branches were blown down. |
| April 2014 | Flash Flood | Powe | - | Several roads were underwater throughout the county. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Powe | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shreve | 0.9 miles | 9 | |
| Shover (historical) | 2.1 miles | 9 | |
| Cyrus | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Bradyville (historical) | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Pyletown | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bernie | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Bunker Hill | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Miller (historical) | 8.1 miles | 9 |
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 Powe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28131913 | The 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 724807. 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.