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Rocky Comfort, Missouri

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64861. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Comfort quadrangle.

Rocky Comfort within McDonald County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Comfort between 1992 and 2019, burning about 638 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
5 August 1994Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1994Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1994Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 August 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 2017Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonald County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rocky Comfort: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc. 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
Morton LandLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in McDonald County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Comfort in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 9 injuries. 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
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRocky Comfort9 hurt, $125,000no account filed
May 2024HailRocky Comfort-Mping report of quarter size hail.
July 2024HailRocky Comfort-Public report of quarter size hail.
July 2021Flash FloodRocky Comfort-Flooding was reported at Main and Mill Streets.
July 2020Heavy RainRocky Comfort-The Mesonet station FW 6791 measured 4.06 inches of rain in just over an hours time.
February 2019HailRocky Comfort-Quarter size hail was reported.
June 2019Heavy RainRocky Comfort-A trained spotter in Rocky Comfort measured 4.00 inches of rainfall.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindRocky Comfort-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed a large tree across a section of Beaver Road.
April 2015HailRocky Comfort-no account filed
June 2013HailRocky Comfort-no account filed
May 2008HailRocky Comfort-no account filed
July 2003HailRocky Comfort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonald 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
Bethlehem2.8 miles14
Simcoe4.4 miles14
Longview6.2 miles14
Bethpage8.7 miles14
Powell9.8 miles14
Cove11.5 miles14
McNatt11.8 miles13
McCullough Ford11.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 725507. 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.