BlockBefore

Solo, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65564. It stands on Little Hog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elk Creek quadrangle. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Solo within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Solo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 419 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
6 August 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 May 1997Debris and open burning15 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 April 1993Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Texas 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 Solo: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Robert Bedwell PrppertyIronPast Producer
Unknown - IronIronPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solo in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 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
April 2011Flash FloodSolo$1,000,000Widespread flooding of rural roads and low water crossings were reported throughout the county.||The total cost estimate for flooding damages for Texas County for this entire episode has been included. This includes roads, bridges, and structures which were affected.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSolo-There were several large limbs blown down.
October 2014HailSolo-Wind gusts were estimated between 50 and 60 mph along with the hail.
August 2013Flash FloodSolo-Highway 17 near Indian Creek was closed to to flood waters.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindSolo-High winds from a dissipating supercell downed several large trees.
May 1998HailSolo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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
Simmons3.3 miles15
Samoa3.6 miles19
Elk Creek3.8 miles18
Tyrone4.6 miles18
Big Creek5.8 miles17
Clara5.8 miles14
Yukon6.2 miles18
Houston6.4 miles19

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 SoloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5269972The 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 755485. 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.