BlockSonora, Missouri
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nishnabotna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64496. It stands on High Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Nemaha quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Nemaha quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Nemaha quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Falls City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Nishnabotna township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
J. T. Maxwell
TAMES T. MAXWELL, son of Thomas and Morning Maxwell, was born in Putnam J county, Tennessee, on March 11, 1864, and was the second of six children. lie never saw his father, who was killed in the war of the rebellion. He was raised on a farm and began fanning' for himself in his twenty-first year. I le afterward had charge of a hoisting machine three years, in a coal mine in Lucas county, Iowa.
In the county-history sources
69,548 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Nishnabotna Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Nishnabotna Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Fires near this place
11 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Sonora between 2011 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 31 July 2016 | Fireworks | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 March 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watson | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Linden | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| Phelps City | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Rock Port | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| Langdon | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| Farmers City | 11.8 miles | 10 | |
| Tarkio | 15.5 miles | 12 | |
| Nishnabotna | 16.1 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739622. 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.