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Rocky Mount, Missouri

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65072. It lies near Cedar Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Mount quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Rocky Mount within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Mount between 1992 and 2020, burning about 183 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 August 2018Fireworksunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178300-06633-08042018-2325
25 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178303-06633-08252018-1545
2 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179435-06633-08022019-1500
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230967-07140-07052020-1207
2 July 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 July 1999Debris and open burning12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178297-06633-06032018-1750
20 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation210538-07140-06202020-1538

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Rocky Mount: 27 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite. 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
Bunkers ProspectZincPast Producer
Gravois BankIronPast Producer
Holst Clay ProspectClayPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joy ProspectLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Union Electric ProspectLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Bradshaw Prospect # 1 & #2Barium-Barite, LeadPast Producer
Dolph DiggingsLead, ZincPast Producer
J. Holst ProspectLeadPast Producer
January DiggingsLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Mount in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
November 1996Flash FloodRocky Mount-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Buck Creek3.8 miles22
Cape Galena (historical)5.2 miles22
Gravois Mills6.1 miles25
Barnett7.7 miles19
Laurie7.9 miles22
Marvin10.3 miles23
Proctor11.5 miles24
Versailles12.7 miles23

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 Rocky MountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11168252The 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 725519. 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.