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Sinsabaugh, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Harris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63953. It stands on Deer Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oxly quadrangle.

Sinsabaugh within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Sinsabaugh between 1992 and 2019, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
8 April 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178442-09143-04032019-2015
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178441-09143-04032019-1830
13 March 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 February 1998Arson/incendiarism27 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
10 February 1993Smoking5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 December 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178035-09143-12032018-2045
3 November 1994Debris and open burning38 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley 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 Sinsabaugh: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
B.L. Williams Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown - S+GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
York Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sinsabaugh in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
April 2011Funnel CloudSinsabaugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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
Glenn2.0 miles11
Torch2.6 miles11
Purman2.7 miles11
Hemenway4.0 miles11
Current View4.1 miles12
Riga (historical)4.3 miles11
Martinsburg (historical)5.8 miles11
Oxly6.3 miles11

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 SinsabaughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28018075The 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 758445. 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.