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Spring City, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Five Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64804. The Survey maps it on the Racine quadrangle.

Spring City within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Spring City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 663 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural2

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 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation220610-07341-08092020-1309
6 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use23 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
31 August 2000Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
17 August 2018Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177462-07341-08172018-1253

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 289 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 289 workings within 5 miles of Spring City: 289 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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
Kirshmann-Jeffries QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, DimensionPast Producer
Baxter MinesLeadPast Producer
Cornwall DiggingsLeadPast Producer
J&M Mining Co.-Ben PutnamZincPast Producer1895
Taxbox QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
White Oak MineZincPast Producer
Alpha MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Black Hawk ShaftLead, ZincPast Producer
Chenoweth TractLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring City in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring City$15,000Report of a roof blown off a new construction house on Highway 43 and Elm St.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSpring City$15,000Report of a tree that fell on a house.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSpring City$10,000no account filed
June 2021Flash FloodSpring City-Highway 86 was closed at a low water area due to flooding.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindSpring City-A large tree and limbs were reported down at Eland Road and Dutch Elm Road.
April 2019Flash FloodSpring City-The road was flooded and Impassable on Douglas Fir Road at MO-43 north of Seneca.
March 2010HailSpring City-no account filed
July 2007HailSpring City-no account filed
May 2003HailSpring City-no account filed
March 2000HailSpring City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Hornet2.1 miles16
Redings Mill2.5 miles19
Cliff Village2.7 miles19
Loma Linda2.8 miles16
Shoal Creek Estates3.0 miles19
Grand Falls Plaza3.4 miles19
Shoal Creek Drive3.8 miles19
Leawood4.0 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 Spring CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5269953The 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 726895. 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.