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Sentinel, Missouri

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1991. It stands in McKinley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65727. The Survey maps it on the Sentinel quadrangle.

Sentinel within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Sentinel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2

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
11 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178611-03015-04202019-1451
20 April 2018Debris and open burning28 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176612-03015-04202018-1338
2 April 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 March 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176188-03015-03082018-2042
7 March 2020Debris and open burning5.5 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190164-03015-03072020-1522
7 March 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 March 1997Debris and open burning60 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sentinel: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, 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
Pittsburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Plummer FarmLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sentinel in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
June 2009Flash FloodSentinel-Widespread excessive rainfall caused flooding over numerous county roads across Polk County. A water rescue was performed along County Road 435 just east of its intersection with Highway D. Flooding that caused this water rescue was from a tributary of Piper Creek that flows along the eastern edge of Bolivar.

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
Huckaby2.4 miles19
Mohawk Corner2.5 miles24
Adonis3.6 miles24
Rimby3.9 miles19
Polk4.5 miles19
Ingalls (historical)5.0 miles19
Huron6.2 miles19
Clifford (historical)6.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 726205. 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.