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Quarles, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Shawnee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64735. The Survey maps it on the Clinton North quadrangle.

Quarles within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Quarles between 1994 and 2020, burning about 507 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1

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
12 August 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2002Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135431-04224-03072016-1705
5 March 2016Debris and open burning11 acresMissouri Department of Conservation133861-02222-03052016-1216
31 March 2014Equipment and vehicle use276 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 March 2014Arson/incendiarism30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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 Quarles: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Quarles Quarry #6Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Williams Rock Mng. Co. # 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quarles in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flash flood. 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
September 2008Flash FloodQuarles-High waters were reported on Highway 13.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Huntingdale3.4 miles18
Shawnee Mound4.1 miles19
Lewis4.1 miles18
Livingston5.3 miles18
Garland5.6 miles18
Petersburg5.9 miles19
Harvey6.2 miles18
Calhoun6.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741182. 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.