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Quick City, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Rose Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64747. It stands on Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quick City quadrangle.

Quick City within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

In the county-history sources

8,644 words on this township

The History of Johnson County, Missouri : Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns, Together with a Map of the County; a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; an Abstract of the Most Important Laws; the Physical Features of the County; the Early Settlers and Pioneers; the Political and War History; the Religious and Educational History...statistics and Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rose Hill Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Rose Hill Township - 8,644 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Quick City between 2006 and 2017, burning about 243 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
14 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation129365-05161-09142015-1628
3 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation135820-05161-04032016-1326
3 April 2006Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 March 2014Debris and open burning158 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134097-05161-02072016-2013
7 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation134096-05161-02072016-2018
17 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 January 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation117290-05161-01082015-1335

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Quick City: 5 past producers. None of them 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
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quick City in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindQuick City-Downed wires near 1225th Road east of Garden City.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindQuick City-Downed power lines with outages northeast of Quick City.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindQuick City-Four inch tree limbs and a tree were reported down across Highway 2.
May 2003HailQuick City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Rose Hill4.2 miles14
Medford5.0 miles14
Latour5.4 miles14
Denton5.7 miles18
Magnolia7.3 miles18
Fenwick7.3 miles14
Chilhowee9.3 miles19
Holden9.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725023. 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.