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Shawnee Mound, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Shawnee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64733. The Survey maps it on the Chilhowee quadrangle.

Shawnee Mound within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Shawnee Mound between 2002 and 2020, burning about 443 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177510-05130-08032018-1404
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177509-05130-08032018-0639
21 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177507-05130-08022018-1537
11 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177513-05130-08112018-1610
22 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177201-05130-05222018-1057
9 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 April 2002Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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 Shawnee Mound: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Quarles Quarry #6Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Williams Rock Mng. Co. # 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shawnee Mound in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindShawnee Mound-There was some damage to metal buildings. Three doors were blown in and a truss in the shed were damaged.
January 1999HailShawnee Mound-Dime-size hail at Shawnee Mound.
May 2000HailShawnee Mound-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Quarles4.1 miles18
Petersburg4.5 miles19
Huntingdale4.7 miles18
Norris7.1 miles18
Lewis7.5 miles18
Garland7.7 miles18
Harvey8.0 miles18
Calhoun8.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 740020. 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.