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Summerfield, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65013. It lies near Fish Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle.

Summerfield within Maries County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield between 1992 and 2014, burning about 70 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
15 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
6 May 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 April 1994Smoking27 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 1994Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 February 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 November 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maries County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Summerfield: 37 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Klein PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Manieke ProspectFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Schwagular ProspectFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Swarty PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Terrill PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unknown - ClayFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Maries County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield in 2 storm reports in 2016: 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
August 2016Flash FloodSummerfield-The low water crossing on Highway 42 was flooded and impassable.
August 2016Flash FloodSummerfield-Flood water was over Highway 42.

Every storm recorded in Maries 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
Paydown Ford (historical)3.6 miles18
Paydown3.8 miles18
Belle4.5 miles16
Bend6.5 miles18
Lindell7.8 miles18
Lanes Prairie7.8 miles17
Henderson Ford (historical)8.0 miles18
James Brothers9.5 miles17

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 SummerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985887The 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 729662. 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.