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Rueter, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65744. It lies near Goetz Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Protem quadrangle. It stands 1,309 feet above sea level.

Rueter within Taney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 11 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Rueter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,415 acres in total. None started naturally. 68 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
Arson/incendiarism68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestTIDWELL 2
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261360-10606-09182020-1545
11 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178012-10606-07112018-0930
11 June 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresMark Twain National ForestRETURN TO BLACKJACK
7 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178011-10606-05202018-1410
9 April 2020Arson/incendiarism40 acresMark Twain National ForestRUETER
9 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresMark Twain National ForestBASIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taney County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rueter in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
April 2017HailRueter-This report was from Mping.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindRueter-Numerous trees were blown down on Highway 160 in Rueter.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRueter-Downburst winds knocked over a few trees.
May 2018HailRueter-no account filed
May 2018HailRueter-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindRueter-no account filed
August 2002HailRueter-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRueter-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindRueter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taney 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
Fairview2.1 miles11
Nance3.7 miles11
Protem5.5 miles11
Hercules6.8 miles11
Hilda7.1 miles13
Cedarcreek7.1 miles11
Eastview (historical)9.7 miles11
Kissee Mills10.9 miles14

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 RueterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3469262The 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 751981. 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.