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Santa Fe, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1986. It stands in South Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65282. It stands on Elm Branch. The Survey maps it on the Santa Fe quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Santa Fe within Monroe County

On record in Santa Fe

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on South Fork township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri, published 1884 - South Fork Township

Chapter Xiii

Introductory Remarks - Priestly H. McBride - David Todd - Austin A. King - Ezra Hunt - A. B. Chambers - Albert G. Harrison - John Anderson - James R. Abernathy - Present Members of the Bar - Crimes and Accidents - Miss Jennie Searcy Killed by a Train of Cars - W.T.Johnson - JepthaHeathman - George Stayton - Robert Cummings - "William Rouse - W.

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In the county-history sources

40,518 words on this township

History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on South Fork Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

As early as 1820 Benjamin Young settled on the South fork not far from Santa Fe. He was the only settler in that portion of the county until 1828. Only eight families were living in this settlement when the county was organized. For eleven years after the first settlements were commenced, the history of the county is connected with that of Ralls. These were years of toil and hardship, of hope and disappointment, of genuine hospitality and true friendships. There was no squinting at aristrocracy among the people, no formalities, all were on one common footing, grappling with nature in a united effort to reduce it to the uses of civilization. Rude cabins with puncheon floors or without even this resemblance of a floor, without windows, except a hole closed with apiece of greased paper to let in the light, were built, forests were felled and cleared away by the united efforts of the pioneers. Immigration came in slowly ; gradually the settlements began to lose that distinctiveness of separation which characterized them during their earliest years ; gradually the monotony of the wide stretches of country intervening between the settlements was broken up by rude cabins of the pioneers, scattered here and there ; gradually the settlements were linked together. There were no trading places, blacksmith-shops nor mills in the county for a number of years. The settlements supplied their few wants at the trading posts or towns on the Missouri or Mississippi rivers. The first blacksmith shop in the county was opened on the Louisiana road, near where Upton's old shop now stands, by Charles Eales. Among the first, and perhaps the first store in the county, was opened in the fall of 1830, one-half mile south of Florida, near where Hickman's mills now stand, by Maj. W. N. Penn. The town of Florida was laid out during the winter of 1831. Robert Donaldson, John Witt, Dr. Keenan, Joseph Grigsby, W. N. Penn and Hugh A. Hickman were its founders. Soon after the town was laid out Maj. Penn moved his stock of goods to the site, and became the first merchant of Florida.

Passage source: History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri, published 1884.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on South Fork Township.

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Santa Fe between 1992 and 1997, burning about 135 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
19 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 June 1992Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 February 1994Debris and open burning120 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 December 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 October 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Santa Fe: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
UnkCoal, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mill Creek Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Fe in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe$5,000Shingles were blown off at least one house and 1 inch diameter tree limbs were broken.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSanta Fe-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree.
July 2014Flash FloodSanta Fe-Up to 5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. U.S. Highway 24 just west of Stoutsville had a foot of water over it at the Otter Creek bridge.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Santa Fe-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field and traveled to the east. It bent one power pole, blew down several large tree limbs and a couple of trees before lifting and dissipating.
May 1995HailSanta Fe-Hail ranged in size from three-quarters inch to one and one-quarter inches.
April 2020HailSanta Fe-no account filed
March 2006HailSanta Fe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Strother5.4 miles16
Victor5.9 miles16
Buzzards Roost7.2 miles16
Florida8.7 miles16
Leich Ford9.7 miles11
Goss12.0 miles11
Paris12.4 miles18
Stoutsville12.5 miles11

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 Santa FeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11233942The 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 726050. 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.