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Spring Fork, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Flat Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65301. It stands on Cheese Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bahner quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Spring Fork within Pettis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Spring Fork between 1992 and 2019, burning about 178 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178039-08048-03032018-1543
16 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178407-08048-03162019-1355
6 February 1994Debris and open burning80 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 February 1992Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
16 February 2018Debris and open burning89 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176086-00807-02162018-1406

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pettis 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 Spring Fork: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Biggs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wadleigh Quarry SouthStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wasson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pettis County

Storms near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Fork in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 8 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSpring Fork-Social media drone photos showing a flattened corn field from straight-line winds as well as a downed power line near U.S. Highway 65 and Manila Road. Several downed tree limbs in the area as well.
April 2016HailSpring Fork-no account filed
April 2014HailSpring Fork-no account filed
April 2014HailSpring Fork-no account filed
April 2014HailSpring Fork-no account filed
June 2011HailSpring Fork-no account filed
June 2011HailSpring Fork-no account filed
June 2011HailSpring Fork-no account filed
September 2010HailSpring Fork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pettis 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
Manila5.5 miles19
Bahner5.9 miles18
Sedalia8.7 miles22
Green Ridge9.5 miles19
Smithton10.4 miles18
Georgetown12.4 miles18
Bryson12.7 miles19
Dresden13.0 miles23

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 ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580496The 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 741278. 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.