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Saline City, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65349. It stands on Buzzard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saline City quadrangle.

Saline City within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Saline City between 1999 and 2017, burning about 109 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
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
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use83 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 March 1999Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 November 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline 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 Saline City: 24 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Unknown - BariteBarium-BaritePast Producer
Alkive QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Arrow Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Gilliam Rock Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Glasgow Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Old QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saline City in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
May 2019HailSaline City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Arrow Rock4.9 miles17
Hardeman5.0 miles18
West Glasgow6.3 miles16
Gilliam7.2 miles18
Orearville7.3 miles18
Cambridge8.1 miles15
Slater8.6 miles18
Napton9.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740019. 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.