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Scruggs, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65109. The Survey maps it on the Lohman quadrangle.

Scruggs within Cole County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Scruggs between 2005 and 2018, burning about 88 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/undetermined1

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
23 April 2018Debris and open burning1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177429-02626-04232018-1450
15 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 October 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
25 January 2018Debris and open burning1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177425-02626-01252018-1745

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cole County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Scruggs: 12 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, Coal. 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
UnknownBarium-Barite, Lead, Zinc, CoalPast Producer
Brounele Farm Lead MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Caspary MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Jeff-Cole Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, 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 Cole County

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scruggs in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindScruggs-Photos on Facebook show a healthy tree uprooted by thunderstorm winds in a neighborhood near the Cole County Fairgrounds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindScruggs-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, numerous tree limbs and power lines around town. A couple of power poles were snapped off and some shingles blown off of a few homes on the west side of town.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindScruggs-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs across the city as well as a few trees.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindScruggs-Thunderstorm winds blew several large trees and numerous large tree limbs and power lines across northern Cole County. In Wardsville, two thirds of the gymnasium roof was damaged at Blair Oaks High School.
April 2023HailScruggs-no account filed
March 2017HailScruggs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cole 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
Apache Flats1.7 miles20
Plummer2.1 miles20
Saint Martins3.6 miles20
Scott3.9 miles20
Elston4.1 miles20
Lohman4.5 miles20
Stringtown4.7 miles20
Cole Junction4.7 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741252. 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.