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Sabula, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63620. It stands on Carver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glover quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Sabula within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 19 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Sabula between 1992 and 2014, burning about 512 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 May 1994Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMark Twain National ForestCORNER
2 April 1997Debris and open burning280 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1997Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 1997Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sabula: 12 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Stone, Dimension, Iron. 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
May QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayProspect
Unknown - CopperCopperPast Producer
Benson QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - Granite DimensionStone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Woodside-Chrisco BankIronOccurrence
AnnapolisLeadPast ProducerGalena
Unknown - LeadLeadProspect
Unknown - LeadLeadProspect

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sabula in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2017HailSabula-A wide swath of large hail fell between Chloride and Annapolis. The largest hail stones were two inches in diameter.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindSabula-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Highway 49 just north of Annapolis.
April 2002HailSabula-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
May 2024HailSabula-no account filed
August 2022HailSabula-no account filed
June 2009HailSabula-no account filed
May 2006HailSabula-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Annapolis3.1 miles20
Chloride3.9 miles19
Berryman4.9 miles19
Glover5.6 miles19
Minimum6.1 miles20
Vulcan6.8 miles20
Allen Mills6.9 miles25
Hogan7.3 miles25

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 SabulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985389The 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 751995. 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.