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Stinson, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65707. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle.

Stinson within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Stinson between 1997 and 2020, burning about 124 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3

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
3 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177413-05558-07122018-1403
9 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177145-05558-06092018-1104
8 May 2018Smoking3.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177415-05558-05082018-2226
18 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177144-05558-04182018-1542
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177412-05558-04172018-1818

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Stinson: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, 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
Unknown - Lead & ZincLead, ZincProspect
Unknown - Lead & Zinc & BariteBarium-Barite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Nicholas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sullivan QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stinson in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 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
April 2011Flash FloodStinson$250,000Route DD was closed due to flooding.||The total cost estimate for flooding damages for Lawrence County for this entire episode has been included. This includes roads, bridges, and structures which were affected.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindStinson$1,000A tree was downed southwest of Everton.
May 2022FloodStinson-State Highway DD was closed due to flooding at Turnback Creek.
March 2021FloodStinson-The low water crossing on State Highway DD at Turnback Creek was closed due to flooding.
March 2020Flash FloodStinson-State Highway DD is closed due to flooding at Turnback Creek.
February 2018FloodStinson-State Highway DD was closed due to flooding along Turnback Creek.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Nickelville2.8 miles18
Call3.4 miles17
Heatonville4.7 miles17
Lawrenceburg4.9 miles18
Olinger5.0 miles15
Spencer5.0 miles18
Miller5.1 miles17
Paris Springs5.3 miles18

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 StinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985680The 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 727117. 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.