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Sargent, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Sargent Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65689. It lies near Riley Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cabool SE quadrangle.

Sargent within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Sargent between 1992 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning18
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
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
9 August 2010Natural22 acresMark Twain National ForestSHEEKS EAST
7 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 May 1997Arson/incendiarism51 acresMark Twain National ForestTICK HOLLER
26 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 1993Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sargent: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin. 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 - ClayKaolinPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J.E. CoatneyIronOccurrenceSurface
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Neatherly Sand and Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sargent in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
April 2016HailSargent-A picture from Facebook showed half dollar size hail.

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Varvol3.6 miles19
Cedar Bluff4.1 miles18
Cabool4.7 miles18
Elk Creek7.2 miles18
Grogan8.8 miles18
Dunn9.4 miles14
Clear Springs9.5 miles17
Simmons9.9 miles15

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 SargentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28089634The 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 752034. 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.