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Slagle, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1884 and the latest in 1984. It stands in East Looney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65613. The Survey maps it on the Bolivar quadrangle.

Slagle within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Slagle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 September 1999Smoking3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177176-08407-06162018-1205
4 April 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176809-08407-04282018-1102
28 March 1993Debris and open burning7.0 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Slagle: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. 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
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - FlintStonePast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Vilas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wishart QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

16 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slagle in 16 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindSlagle$5,000A parked semi trailer was blown onto its side by high winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSlagle$2,000A power line pole was blown down.
May 2022FloodSlagle-Highways 13, Y and U were all flooded and closed at and around Piper Creek.
March 2019FloodSlagle-Water from Piper Creek was reported over the road at South 132 Road.
February 2019FloodSlagle-Route Y, eastbound and westbound, was closed due to flooding.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSlagle-Nickel size hail was also reported with the wind gusts.
February 2012HailSlagle-Hail fell at the Fairgrounds.
May 2011FloodSlagle-Route Y was closed due to flooding between 156th and 160th Roads.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindSlagle-Several large limbs were blown down.
July 2007Flash FloodSlagle-Heavy thunderstorms combined with saturated soil conditions produced flooding over several roads north of Morrisville.
September 2007Flash FloodSlagle-A bridge along County Road 470 near its intersection with County Road 170 flooded.
May 2018HailSlagle-no account filed
May 2018HailSlagle-no account filed
May 2017HailSlagle-no account filed
June 2008HailSlagle-no account filed
April 2002HailSlagle-no account filed

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
Cedar Vista0.5 miles16
Karlin2.6 miles17
Sunset3.8 miles16
Morrisville4.5 miles17
Wishart4.8 miles17
Van5.1 miles16
Brighton5.3 miles17
Bolivar6.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 726524. 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.