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Schofield, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in South Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65663. The Survey maps it on the Halfway quadrangle.

Schofield within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Schofield between 1997 and 2019, burning about 184 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2000Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 August 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 July 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 April 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schofield in 15 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSchofield$5,000A report of damage to a barn roof was reported at south 210th Road and Highway YY.
May 2024HailSchofield-Quarter size hail was reported 3 miles west of Foose in Polk County.
May 2024HailSchofield-Social media report of quarter size hail south of Halfway.
June 2024Flash FloodSchofield-State Highway EE and State Highway H were closed due to flooded roads.
May 2022Flash FloodSchofield-A water rescue occurred on Highway H at the North Deer Creek Low water crossing. No injuries were reported.
October 2022HailSchofield-Nickle sized hail was reported.
July 2021Flash FloodSchofield-Roads between Highway 65 and Highway H along EE were flooded and impassable.
July 2021Flash FloodSchofield-Highway YY was flooded and impassable at North Deer Creek.
June 2013Flash FloodSchofield-Highway H was flooded near Highway EE north of Pleasant Hope.
May 2013HailSchofield-Quarter to half dollar sized hail was reported at Highway YY and Highway H.
February 2012Tornado (EF1)Schofield-A NWS survey indicated that an EF-1 tornado touched down near the Polk and Dallas county line near the intersection of Highway EE and South 245th Road. Additional details of the track and damage will be in the Dallas County portion of this report as only tree damage occurred for the Polk County portion of the tornado track.
February 2011Funnel CloudSchofield-Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud at 490th Road and 178th Road.
May 2010Flash FloodSchofield-Highway EE and several other low water crossings flooded in the Pleasant Hope area.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSchofield-no account filed
June 2008HailSchofield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Rex2.5 miles17
Van4.3 miles16
Rock Prairie4.8 miles20
Halfway4.9 miles17
Sunset5.4 miles16
Burns6.5 miles16
Tin Town6.8 miles20
Pleasant Hope7.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741245. 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.

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.