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Prescott, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Lynch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65542. It stands on Mullin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Prescott quadrangle.

Prescott within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Prescott between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,573 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
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
13 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 July 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMark Twain National ForestBRABO BALES
21 May 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 May 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 April 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Prescott: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, 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
Rogers Mill LandIronPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Martin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Seth Smith QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

41 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prescott in 41 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 25 flood, 9 flash flood, 3 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPrescott$100,000Downburst wind gusts destroyed two machine sheds that were 25 feet wide and 60 feet in length. Two corn cribs were also destroyed along with several down large trees. This damage occurred near the intersection of Highway E and Sand Shores Road south of Prescott.
March 2026FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding.
March 2026FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding along the Big Piney River.
April 2026FloodPrescott-State Highway BB at Big Piney River was closed due to flooding.
April 2025Flash FloodPrescott-Route BB at Big Piney Creek was flooded and impassable.
June 2025FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding at the Big Piney River.
June 2025FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding.
June 2025FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding at the Big Piney River.
March 2024FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding along the Big Piney River.
June 2024Flash FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding of the Big Piney River.
August 2024FloodPrescott-Route BB was closed at the Big Piney River due to flooding.
December 2024FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding of the Big Piney River.
June 2024Flash FloodPrescott-State Highway BB was closed due to flooding of the Big Piney River.
May 2024Flash FloodPrescott-Flooding was reported at Boiling Springs Resort area near Big Piney River.
February 2023FloodPrescott-Highway BB at the Big Piney River low water crossing was flooded and impassable.
March 2023FloodPrescott-Highway BB at the Big Piney River was flooded and impassable.
March 2023FloodPrescott-Highway BB near Boiling Spring Access was closed due to flooding.
May 2023FloodPrescott-Route BB at Big Piney Creek was flooded and impassable.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPrescott-Several tree were reported down via social media.
March 2020FloodPrescott-The Big Piney River low water crossing at Highway BB was closed due to flooding.
May 2020Flash FloodPrescott-Highway BB was closed at the Boone Creek low water crossing due to flooding.
January 2020Flash FloodPrescott-Excessive rain caused flooding on Highway BB at the Boone Creek closing the road.
February 2019FloodPrescott-Route BB south of Licking closed due to flooding.
February 2018FloodPrescott-Highway BB at the Big Piney River was closed due to flooding.
May 2018Flash FloodPrescott-There was up to 2 feet of water over State Highway BB at the Boiling Spring Access.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindPrescott-A few trees were blown down on State Highway E.
July 2016FloodPrescott-Highway BB near Decker Road was closed due to flooding along the Big Piney River.
August 2015FloodPrescott-State Highway BB at the Big Piney River was closed due to flooding.
November 2015FloodPrescott-Route BB was closed due to flooding at the Big Piney River near the Boiling Spring Access.
December 2015FloodPrescott-Route BB near the Big Piney River was closed due to flooding.
June 2013FloodPrescott-Route BB was closed.
February 2013FloodPrescott-MODOT reported that the low water crossing along Highway BB was flooded.
April 2013FloodPrescott-Highway BB was closed due to flooding.
April 2011Flash FloodPrescott-Highway BB was closed due to flooding.
April 2011Funnel CloudPrescott-A funnel cloud was reported by amateur radio.
January 2010FloodPrescott-A low water crossing, on Route BB along the Big Piney River, was flooded and impassable.
May 2010FloodPrescott-A low water crossing on state Highway BB was flooded and closed.
September 2010Flash FloodPrescott-State Route BB was closed due to flooding.
June 2011HailPrescott-no account filed
June 2011HailPrescott-no account filed
May 1998HailPrescott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Raftville (historical)3.9 miles21
Venable4.4 miles21
Ellsworth4.9 miles15
Oscar5.1 miles18
Licking5.5 miles18
Mahan5.5 miles18
Ellis Prairie6.5 miles15
Mineral Springs City7.1 miles19

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 PrescottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28089631The 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 751753. 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.