BlockBefore

Shook, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lost Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63944. It stands on Shook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shook quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Shook within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Shook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking2

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
17 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 May 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresMark Twain National ForestHICKORY FLAT
1 May 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMark Twain National ForestD-HIGHWAY
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1995Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 April 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Shook: 12 past producers, 6 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Seminole Ag-Lime QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
Jines BankIronProspect
Mason & Clarkson LandIronPast Producer
Mayberry TractIronOccurrence
Moss & Clarkson LandIronProspect
Neighbors LandIronProspect
Northwestern Consolidated Land # 1IronPast Producer
Northwestern Consolidated Land # 2IronPast Producer
Northwestern Consolidated Land # 3IronPast Producer
Northwestern Consolidated Land # 4IronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shook in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
January 2020Thunderstorm WindShook$35,000A large portion of the roof was blown off a big wooden barn. A window pane was blown out of a house, and a few shingles were blown off. Numerous trees were blown down, blocking access to the area. One tree fell on an old abandoned camper, destroying it.
October 2021Tornado (EF1)Shook$20,000This tornado touched down in the heavily forested county of Wayne, just a few miles north of the community of Shook. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped. The tornado passed mainly through wooded country during the Wayne County portion of its path. The tornado then crossed into Bollinger County.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindShook$20,000Broken power poles were reported in the Lost Creek area. State road crews removed several trees and limbs from state roads.
March 2015FloodShook$5,000A water rescue was conducted on County Road 505 near Shook, where a small SUV was stalled in floodwater. Emergency crews used ropes to rescue two women and two children, who were uninjured. The vehicle was stranded in about two feet of water on a low water bridge. County Road 505 was closed due to flooding in the Lost Creek area. Elsewhere, water was over Route TT in several locations in the southern part of the county.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindShook$4,000Trees and power lines were downed.
March 2020HailShook-The hail occurred at the intersection of P and TT Highways.
August 2011HailShook-no account filed
April 2006HailShook-no account filed
August 2004HailShook-no account filed
March 1996HailShook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Lost Creek Landing1.4 miles19
Chaonia (historical)4.8 miles14
Kime4.8 miles19
Holliday Landing6.1 miles19
McGee6.4 miles19
Ferrys (historical)7.3 miles14
Wappapello7.7 miles14
Lowndes7.7 miles20

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 ShookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3471104The 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 752136. 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.