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Sandy Hook, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Linn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65046. It stands on Factory Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centertown NW quadrangle.

Sandy Hook within Moniteau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sandy Hook in 2018, burning about 73 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1

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
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined62 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177841-06843-04282018-1654
19 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177840-06843-04192018-1621
4 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177836-06843-02042018-0825
20 October 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177868-06843-10202018-1006
31 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177835-06843-01312018-1521

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Moniteau County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Sandy Hook: 14 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
Tanner-Mcbaine MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - LeadLeadPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brown QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Haffner Quarries # 1 & 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lime & Rock Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lupus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Moniteau County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandy Hook in 1 storm report in 2007: 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
May 2007Flash FloodSandy Hook-The County Sheriff reported Highway 179 closed due to 2 feet of water over the road.

Every storm recorded in Moniteau 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
Bacon3.6 miles18
Jamestown4.0 miles20
Kliever6.1 miles19
Lupus7.2 miles20
Cedron8.6 miles18
Renfro9.4 miles18
McGirk10.1 miles18
California11.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 729390. 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.