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Rader, Missouri

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65632. It stands on Myers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rader quadrangle.

Rader within Webster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Rader between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,120 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning17
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2

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
10 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220562-11204-05072020-1210
6 April 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2000Debris and open burning129 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1998Arson/incendiarism12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1995Arson/incendiarism498 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1994Arson/incendiarism132 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation129725-11410-04012015-1315

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rader in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2009Flash FloodRader$25,000Excessive rain cause significant flash flooding across northeast Webster County. Several roads were washed out from swift moving streams in the area.
February 2018FloodRader$5,000Two people were rescued from flood water at the Kilburn Bridge.
June 2024Flash FloodRader-A water rescue occurred at State Highway ZZ due to flooding and the road was closed.
March 2023FloodRader-Highway ZZ at Myers Branch was closed due to flooding.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindRader-A large tree was blown over.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRader-Several trees and power lines were reported down. Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2010HailRader-no account filed
June 2009HailRader-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Vance3.5 miles13
Susanna5.6 miles12
Sampson6.7 miles13
Niangua7.9 miles13
Niangua Junction8.0 miles13
Johnston Ford8.0 miles13
Bracken9.0 miles13
Forkners Hill10.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725052. 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.